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Byline: Matt Stearns
WASHINGTON _ John Kerry's critics have zeroed in on one week in 1971, when they charge that he threw away someone else's combat medals to protest the war in Vietnam, then slipped away from his fellow veterans camped on the National Mall to sleep at a family friend's house in swank Georgetown.
After 33 years, the charges may seem trivial. But Kerry's opponents are using them to paint him as a disloyal opportunist with credibility problems and character flaws.
Kerry has said for years that he threw his combat ribbons, but not his medals, over the Capitol fence along with the medals of two other soldiers who couldn't make it ...