I think that the link
http://martinirepublic.com/item/481 was provided on several posts but posting some of it is too delicious)
From
http://www.democraticunderground.com/top10/04/169.htmlZell's comment that "it is the soldier, not the reporter, that has given us the freedom of the press."
This was from a chain email
http://www.pandagon.net/mtarchives/003316.htmlIT IS THE SOLDIER
It is the Soldier, not the Reporter,
who has given us Freedom of the Press.
It is the Soldier, not the Poet,
who has given us Freedom of Speech.
It is the Soldier, not the Lawyer,
who has given us the Right to a Free Trial.
And from Snopes (the urban myth page)
http://www.snopes.com/politics/kerry/weapons.aspClaim: Senator John Kerry "voted to kill every military appropriation for the development and deployment of every weapons systems since 1988."
Status: False.
(on edit, misspelled crazy Zell's name)