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An interview with Mary Jane McManus will be webcast Monday, April 25, 2005 at 2pm EDST and will be on air live for an hour on Rightalk Radio. The show will be archived and played again several times. If you have an interest in the recent election and the Swift Boat Veteran's and POW's for Truth and how the people involved came together to unite against John Kerry Mary Jane provides some interesting insights. The Vietnam Veteran's Legacy Foundation on which Mary Jane is a board member should also interest every veteran. Join Rightalk as we subject our guests...

JOIN THE BILLBOARD CAMPAIGN! We're almost to November 2nd, but there's still time to have a personal effect on the election--you can do one of three things RIGHT NOW: Contact an advertising agent in your area (don't use Viacom--they own CBS and Dan Rather) and see if there's a thirty-panel billboard available in a good drive-by location that can be rented for two weeks. Then pay for it! (Thank you in advance--please let us know what you're doing.) Just in case that's too expensive, send a contribution to Vietnam Vets for the Truth to pay for the campaign we're...

My name is Steve Pitkin, age 20, from Baltimore. I served with the 9th Division from May of '69 until I was airvaced in July of '69. I'll testify about the beating of civilians and enemy personnel, destruction of villages, indiscriminate use of artillery, the general racism and the attitude of the American GI toward the Vietnamese. I will also talk about some of the problems of the GIs toward one another and the hassle with officers. -- Steve Pitkin, Winter Soldier Investigation, February 1, 1971. ---------- Steve Pitkin never intended to speak at the Winter Soldier Investigation. He agreed...

Bruce Kesler will appear with J. D. Brooks on "5 Alive" at WHAW 980 AM for 30 minutes, followed by Scott Swett at 5:30. In 1971 Bruce founded Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace to counter John Kerry's Vietnam Veterans Against the War. That's the organization that put John O'Neill on the Dick Cavett Show to debate Kerry. Scott Swett is the primary author of WinterSoldier.com. Listen online.

August 19, 2004 -- Posted Swift Veteran statements in response to today's Washington Post article by Michael Dobbs, Records Counter a Critic of Kerry. Dobbs attempts to make a case that there was enemy small-arms fire during the Rassmann incident for which John Kerry obtained a Bronze Star, based on the writeup for Larry Thurlow's own Bronze Star. But who wrote the action report for the event? And why no bullet holes in any of the boats? Statement By Swift Boat Veterans for Truth member Larry Thurlow Statement By Swift Boat Veterans for Truth member Van Odell Statement By Swift...

6:00 PM Tuesday, August 17, 2004 Aquaturf Club, Mulberry Street, Plantsville, CT Vietnam Vets for the Truth, LLC (VVT) is hosting a fundraising dinner at the Aquaturf Club in Plantsville, Connecticut, on August 17th. Proceeds from the dinner will benefit VVT's "Kerry Lied... While Good Men Died" rally - an event being held on September 12th in Washington D.C. VVT represents the majority of Vietnam veterans who stand in opposition to John Kerrys bid for the White House and who deem him unfit to be Americas Commander-in-Chief. Earlier in the year, the group broke the Saigon Museum Photo story that...

On October 14, 1979, John Kerry described a remarkable event from his days as a Swift boat officer for the Boston Herald: "I remember spending Christmas Eve of 1968 five miles across the Cambodian border being shot at by our South Vietnamese allies who were drunk and celebrating Christmas. The absurdity of almost being killed by our own allies in a country in which President Nixon [sic] claimed there were no American troops was very real." -- President Nixon, of course, did not assume office until January of 1969. On March 27, 1986, during a speech opposing President Reagan's policy...