They did that to make fun of the fact that in almost all of Kerry's speeches, he mentions he was in the Vietnam war and uses those medals to portray himself as some sort of hero.
Yeah, he brags about it...never mind the fact he used those medals to get himself out of Vietnam, leave his people behind and protest war while his former shipmates were still fighting in it. He talks with such pride when he says he was there, but during the war he dragged the name of the American soldier through the mud when he acused them of commiting war crimes and claiming he comitted some himself. (although I can't think of many situations where a navy skiffboat captain goes on the ground-pounding search and destroy mission like the ones he claims he was on when those so-called atrocities he witnessed were comitted...that is beyond me...) Yeah, real army pride there to brag about forty years later there, John!...bastard...
-VGsatomi