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You're right, Sheehan beat up Lane's book in a 27 December 1970 review. I mistook citations of that on pp. 131-133 of Stolen Valor for part of the discussion of VVAW/WSI that begins on p. 133. I don't have a comprehensive list of participants, but I have no evidence Onan or Schneider was there. Schneider wwas probably in military or civil prison, where he's been almost continuously since 1971. Schneider is presently in a loony bin, or the "happy home," as Napoleon XIV would have called it, in OK for murder.

The NIS investigation appears to have only looked into Marines. See Stolen Valor p. 133, bottom third. Apparently Sen. Mark Hatfield asked the Commandant of the Marine Corps to look into the Marine "atrocities" Kerry's phonies claimed. The VVAW leadership - that would be Kerry -- ordered the rank and file not to cooperate. SV in turn cites Gunter Lewy's America in Vietnam for the NIS story. Supposedly it's on p. 317 of that book. A direct quote from Lewy (SV p. 134, top): "But the most damaging finding consisted of the sworn statements of several veterans, corroborated by witnesses, that they had in fact not attended the hearing in Detroit. One of them had never been to Detroit in his life."

And further down SV p. 134, another Lewy quote: "The VVAW's use of fake witnesses...."

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Thanks. I really need to get a copy of 'Stolen Valor'..

I don't have it handy, but I've read a couple of times that Lewy read the NIS investigation but now can't locate it. I got the idea of a clerical error, and the Navy wants to find it but can't. You've heard different - a privacy dodge.

As far as I know from just clicking on the Web, the witnesses in the WSI itself stand untouched.

Doesn't seem likely, but I don't know how to rebut those that say "prove it".