Alston Never Served Under Kerry

Captain's Quarters ^ | 8/14/2004 | captain ed

[auboy]

I'm starting to think Kerry had these made years ago!

One thing is for sure. Kerry said he was going to be the next JFK. IMO, he started his 'plan' early on. He would make himself a 'war hero'. We are dealing with a calculating opportunist, aren't we?

Do not put anything past Kerry and his ambition.

[Steel Wolf]

Thanks for posting that movie review, Meek. You simply can't make this stuff up. I can't believe I'm actually reading John F. Kerry writing a movie rewiew about Apocalypse Now. Kerry is so shameless as to use his own fiction as a stick to beat Coppola's fiction with.

IT'S MADNESS, I TELL YOU! SHEER MADNESS! How does this guy have an ounce of credibility with anyone?

[Mo1]

A photo of a photo from a George Washington University website, first posted june 2002, shows an earlier photo that the FAKED PHOTO seems to have been 'shop'ed from... Note the captions say that ALSON IS NOT PICTURED

Not so fast .. they are two DIFFERENT pictures

Notice how the blonde hair guy is holding a cig in each picture

And the one from that site it looks like Alson is bent over leaning on his knee

[shrinkermd]

Someone has to question the principals before any claims of wrongdoing are made. This could be just the mistake the Kerry clan desires--we assume a wrongdoing and are proven wrong ourselves. A disaster for the many proven lies thus far.

[maggief]

http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/images/day5/04.htm US Senate candidate John Kerry is flanked by fellow Vietnam veterans in front of the State House on September 12, 1984, as he receives their endorsement. Speaking is Joe Bangert, US Marine Sergeant and helicopter gunner.

[Future Useless Eater]

Ok then, why are the shadows wrong?

[Shermy]

I think the "wall" picture is the "laughing" pic. The next one is the "be serious" snapshot. I have the similar. :)

Alston could have returned after his injuries and served under Kerry. Though the details and timing are interesting, none the less.

[Cboldt]

Both pictures have the same 5 people. The caption ("Alston is not pictured") is wrong.

Knock yourself out with the "photoshopped photo" story. An easier way to poke holes in Kerry's story (and more likely true) is the dates the photos were taken, and more meaninful deviations in the record (like, how the heck did Kerry get his 1st PH?).

[Shermy]

Ok then, why are the shadows wrong?

1. Because Kerry, or his head, was added to the photo.

2. It is Kerry, and for reasons not immediately evident to us the shadow isn't wrong. I've read these "shadows are wrong" type discussions before with other photos.

[shezza]

"It's like you're unraveling a big cable-knit sweater that someone keeps knitting, and knitting, and knitting, and knitting..."

[Mo1]

I'm not a photo expert .. so I can't explain shaddows

But from what I can tell they are two different pictures taken within seconds or minutes of each other

[Cboldt]

His (Alston's) speech is online at http://www.dems2004.org/site/apps/nl/content3.asp?c=luI2LaPYG&b=125919&ct=158727 <--Clickit

Another thread here on FR has a recent JPG of him. I'll see if I can cite it for you.

[Mo1]

Alston could have returned after his injuries and served under Kerry. Though the details and timing are interesting, none the less.

I agree it is interesting .. but they need records to see of it pans out

[TruBluKentuckian]

That larger version shows the area that I took to be "airbrushing" in better detail.

I take back my accusations, from this version you can see that's it's not altered.

I'm also having my doubts that any of the picture is altered, due to there being another picture taken, obviously, at the same time.

[Aliska]

Seeing another picture like that makes me think it is less likely that it was faked.

The Boston Globe credited Madeiros as being the owner of the picture.

[dead]

There just appears to be two different photos to me.

[razorback-bert]

From that web site:

Immediately by the door is large color photograph taken in 1969 on the Mekong Delta in Vietnam showing Kerry and crewmates Tom Belodeau, Michael Medeiros, Del Sandusky, and Gene Thorson (not in the photo is David Alston).

[Cboldt]

Here's the curious thing. I can't find a current pic of alston.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1189173/posts <-- Alston pics in 1st post

[dead]

The shadows aren't wrong. The sun appears to overhead, just behind the guy taking the picture. The blonde guy is tilting his head to his left. Kerry is tilting his head to the right.

Kerry's shadow is longer because his enormous horse head is longer.

[Jenya]

Being a newbie, I'd like to know why huge is hugh and serious is series. Is there a background story on this? It makes me laugh, but has me wondering.