(new)Kerry Ads Touts His 'Lifetime of Service' ("Heart" and "Lifetime")

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-4049430,00.html

Kerry Ad Touts His 'Lifetime of Service'

Monday May 3, 2004 8:01 PM


By LIZ SIDOTI Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, promoting his Vietnam War experience and his political career as "a lifetime of service and strength," is launching a $25 million advertising campaign that includes forays into two Republican-leaning states.

One of two new 60-second ads, "Heart," features two Vietnam veterans as well as wife Teresa Heinz Kerry and daughter Vanessa Kerry as it presents Kerry's background as a county prosecutor and U.S. senator. The other ad, "Lifetime," focuses on the Navy service in Vietnam that won Kerry three Purple Hearts and Silver and Bronze stars.

"If you look at my father's time in service to this country, whether it's as a veteran, prosecutor or senator, he has shown an ability to fight for things that matter," Vanessa says in "Heart." Teresa Heinz Kerry adds, "John is the face of someone who's hopeful, who's generous of spirit and of heart."

Del Sandusky of Elgin, Ill., served under Kerry on a patrol boat in 1969 and appeared in a primary campaign ad for Kerry. In "Lifetime," Sandusky repeats a line from the earlier ad: "The decisions that he made saved our lives."

Kerry won the Bronze Star for saving the other veteran in the ads, Jim Rassmann of Oregon, during combat. "When he pulled me out of the river," Rassmann says in the "Lifetime" spot, "he risked his life to save mine."

The ad also says Kerry has supported victim's rights and children's health care, even breaking with his own party to support a balanced budget. The ads carry the same tag line, "A Lifetime of Service and Strength." <snip>

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1. As in "adulthood doesn't begin at 40."

Hhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmm...

[papau]

2. I like that!

:-)