Kerry said his earliest memory of childhood was holding his crying mother's hand as he returned to his mother's hometown in Saint-Briac, France, when he was 3 years old. That visit came just after the Allies had liberated the war-torn city from the Nazis on August 14, 1944. The family's old mansion, Les Essarts, was requisitioned by the Nazis as a war command center during the war. As the Germans retreated they burned the entire building.
The building was rebuilt in 1954. Kerry and his family often spent summer vacations here. Kerry always loved playing games with his cousins ??when he was here. It was during this time that he became good friends with his cousin Brice Lalonde, who later became a French Socialist and ran for the 1981 French presidential election.
Due to his father's work, Kerry's family moved frequently, and he also changed schools many times when he was a child. Years later, he recalled, "What irked me was that I was always moving, always saying goodbye. It has an effect on you, makes you cold, makes you not have a sense of rootedness. As a child That was not a good thing." When he was 11, the family moved to Berlin and he went to a boarding school in Switzerland. When he returned home to Berlin, he would ride his bicycle around the former Nazi capital, which was completely destroyed by the Allies. Sometimes he would even sneak into Soviet-controlled areas alone until his father discovered this and punished him. Go out again. As a child, Kerry often lived alone. He has cycled alone across France, taken a boat from Norway to England, and even once camped alone in Sherwood Forest. While at school he had the opportunity to watch the movie Scaramouche, which became his favorite movie and he named his yacht after the film's protagonist. When Kerry's father was sent to work at the U.S. Embassy in Oslo, Norway, Kerry was sent back to boarding school in Massachusetts. In 1957, he went to Fessenden School in West Newton Village, Massachusetts, where he met Richard Pershing, the grandson of the famous American General John Joseph Pershing. (Richard Pershing).
The following year, Kerry transferred to St. Paul's School in New Hampshire and graduated from the school in 1962. His father's salary as a diplomat was not enough to pay for Kerry's tuition, so Kerry's childless aunt Clara Winthrop volunteered to pay for Kerry's tuition. Kerry felt out of place at St. Paul's because he was religiously Catholic, and most of St. Paul's students came from Communist, Protestant Anglican families.
Although it was difficult to integrate into the environment of S?o Paulo, Kerry made many friends here and expanded his interests. He learned how to speak in front of large groups and became interested in politics. In his spare time he enjoys playing ice hockey and lacrosse. He played on the same team as current FBI Director Robert S. Muller. Kerry also co-formed a band in which he played electric guitar, and the band published a photo album in 1961. In 2004, one of the albums was sold on eBay for $2,551.
In 1959, Kerry formed the John Winant Society at St. Paul's School to comment on current events. The society still exists today. In 1962, Chukry entered Yale University to study political science and received a bachelor's degree in political science in 1966. In college, he participated in the school's football, hockey, field hockey and fencing teams; in addition, he also took flying lessons. To earn pocket money, he worked as a warehouse transport worker and a door-to-door encyclopedia salesman during the summer vacation.
In his sophomore year, he became the chairman of the Yale Political Alliance. This position gave him the opportunity to participate in major political events at the time, including the influential civil rights movement. Kerry also joined Skull and Bones at Yale University.
Under the guidance of history professor Rollin G. Osterweis, Kerry defeated countless debaters from other schools and won the national debate championship. In March 1965, as the Vietnam War intensified, Kerry won the Ten Eyck Award for Best Young Speaker for a speech criticizing U.S. foreign policy.
In this speech, Kerry said, "What the people of Africa and Asia fear more is not communism, but Western imperialism, so the war will eventually fail." Due to his outstanding Because of his oratory skills, he was selected as the 1966 Yale valedictorian. The speech severely criticized the U.S. foreign policy at the time, including the war in Vietnam.
In 1976, Kerry also entered Boston College (BOSTON COLLEGE) Law School, where he received a law degree. In 1962, Kerry began to become a volunteer staff member for Edward Kennedy's Senate campaign. That summer he began dating Janet Auchincloss, Jacqueline Kennedy's half-sister. Euchin Krause invites Kerry to visit her family's farm in Rhode Island. It was here that Kerry first met President John F. Kennedy.
When Kerry told Kennedy that he would attend Yale University for further study, Kennedy, who graduated from Harvard, grimaced (Harvard and Yale have traditionally been competing top universities). Kerry later recalled: "He smiled at me and said, 'Oh, that's okay. You know I'm a Yale guy now.'" According to Kerry, "The president then said that classic quote, 'A Harvard education plus a Yale degree.'" Kennedy was actually referring to the fact that Yale had awarded him an honorary degree just weeks earlier. That day, a White House photojournalist helped the president and his friends arrange a photo, and Kerry and Kennedy appeared on the president's sailboat at the same time. A few weeks later, the two met again at the America's Cup in Rhode Island. On February 18, 1966, after Kerry's request to defer graduation for 12 months and study in Paris was rejected, Kerry voluntarily signed up to join the U.S. Naval Reserve [1]. He officially began serving in the army on August 19. After successfully completing 16 weeks of military training at the U.S. Naval Training Center Officer School, he officially enlisted in the army on December 16. That Christmas, after saying goodbye to his relatives, Kerry went to California to attend the 10-week officer damage control course at the Naval Academy. On March 22, 1967, he reported to the U.S. Fleet Air Warfare Training Center and received training to become a war intelligence center inspector.
Kerry first began his mission on June 8, 1967, working in the electronics department on the USS Gridley guided missile frigate with the rank of second lieutenant. On February 9, 1968, the USS Gridley set off for a defense mission in the Western Pacific. The day after boarding the ship, Kerry requested to serve in Vietnam, stating that he hoped to become a Fast Patrol Craft (PCF) captain. The fifty-foot-long speedboat has an aluminum hull with little steel protection, but is heavily armed and capable of great speeds. “I didn’t want to get involved in the war,” Kerry later wrote in a 1986 book about his memories of the Vietnam War. “When I joined the cutters, they were not officially involved in combat. They were just patrolling the coast. . I thought I would be involved in a similar mission."
The Gridley visited many places, including Wellington in New Zealand, the Gulf of Tonkin in North Vietnam, and the Philippines. At this time, the Gridley had not yet exchanged fire with the enemy, and began its return voyage on May 27, 1968. On June 6 of the same year, the Gridley safely returned to California, USA.
Ten days after returning home, Kerry was promoted to lieutenant; on June 20, 1968, Kerry left the Gridley and went to the Naval Amphibious Base in Colorado for training. Kerry completed the training on November 17 of the same year. Afterwards, it arrived at Cam Ranh Bay, South Vietnam, on December 1, to report to the First Detachment of the 14th Naval Division. Kerry served as the captain of two speedboats in the speedboat team and participated in "Operation Sealords" (Operation Sealords).
The goal of the operation is to penetrate deep into the Vietnamese-controlled areas, and the speedboat team's mission is to patrol the narrow waters of the Mekong Delta - canals, inlets and bays - to monitor enemy movements and block enemy water supply lines , lure the enemy to attack or expose the enemy's military power.
Kerry served as the captain of the speedboat team for 4 months. His first ship was the speedboat PCF-44. He led the five members on board to patrol in enemy-controlled areas. In January 1969, Kerry was transferred to the speedboat PCF-94 as captain. In the next 48 days, he commanded 18 missions on the ship. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who was visiting Europe, was injured in an accident while riding his bicycle in the Swiss-French border area on Sunday (May 31).
Kerry's injuries are currently stable and not life-threatening. He is being treated in a hospital in Geneva, Switzerland.
Kerry, 71, is a cycling enthusiast. He was riding a bicycle in Scionzier, a French town 40 kilometers away from Geneva, Switzerland, when the accident happened. He was injured in a fall after his bicycle hit a curb.
Kerry is currently on a visit to Europe and was originally scheduled to go to the Spanish capital Madrid later on Sunday to meet with the king and prime minister.
Kerry met with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif on Saturday to discuss Iran's nuclear program.