Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Latest Kerry "Self-Proclaiming Hero" Problems! Swift Boat Rescue Story Springs Another Leak!
2 reporter friends in DC | MB26

Posted on 08/09/2004 9:12:32 AM PDT by MindBender26

Seems Kerry's "I'm a Swift Boat Hero" story has sprung another leak.

Kerry claimed a Bronze Star with "V" device for rescuing Jim Rassmann, an Army SF 0-2 after a mine exploded under a boat, knocking Rassman into the water.

That Kerry pulled Rassman out of the water is not contested, but the Bronze Star is now being questioned.

According to tro friends at network, not just Rassman but a total of 4 men went into the water that day. Kerry saved Rassman, another boat saved another soldier and a third boat pulled two people to safety!

The problem is, for the other boat skippers, it was all in a day's work. No medals were asked for, recomended or awarded.

Kerry pulls one in four out of the water and gets the Bronze Star!

What does not compute here????

Media types are at DOD Awards Branch, trying to get the documents on this.

Semper Gumby!


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; antiamerican; bronze; bronzestar; cambodia; christmasincambodia; hanoikerry; iaintfondajohn; johnkerry; kerry; ketchup; liar; liarliarliar; lyingliar; military; militaryrecord; sedition; skerrykerry; swiftboat; swiftboatvets; swiftvetsdotcom; traitor; treason; unamerican; unfit; unfitforcommand; vet; veteran; veterans; veteransforbush; vets; vietnam; wintersoldierdotcom
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 261-266 next last
To: Conspiracy Guy
Can anyone identify the man behind, right side, of Kerry in the photo of his Senate testimony?
41 posted on 08/09/2004 9:55:44 AM PDT by tobyhill (The war on terrorism is not for the weak!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: Old Sarge

42 posted on 08/09/2004 9:56:09 AM PDT by ErnBatavia ("Dork"; a 60's term for a 60's kinda guy: JFK)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: blake6900
Why would anyone be eating a cookie while under enemy fire?

Well on the point I would not slam him because he fell off the boat at the start of what was going on ...I.E. he was eating a cookie before any thing happen... then the first enemy fire (and apparel the only enemy fire)was a boat hitting a mine and Rassman and three other went in the water... Whether from the blast or from Kerry's boat bugging out to fast ?

43 posted on 08/09/2004 9:58:03 AM PDT by tophat9000
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: js1138

He made the "Nixon" comment in a discussion with a Boston Globe reporter, not in a speech on the floor of the US Senate.


44 posted on 08/09/2004 9:59:06 AM PDT by Cboldt
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: blake6900
"And none of the swift boats were damaged."

O'Dell said a mine exploded, destroying one of the boats. A friend of his was killed in the blast. The other boats never bolted the way Kerry did. They stayed to rescue survivors, and apparently only the people on Kerry's own boat got any medals...though that's the boat that originally bailed.

45 posted on 08/09/2004 10:01:46 AM PDT by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions=Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: MindBender26
"Media types are at DOD Awards Branch, trying to get the documents on this."

..and while there on the prowl for documents...could they get the rest of Kerry's Military records?????

It would be nice.....

redrock

46 posted on 08/09/2004 10:01:51 AM PDT by redrock ("Better a Shack in Heaven....than a Mansion in Hell"---My Grandma)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: gimme1ibertee

Perhaps. But think: how many people can even IDENTIFY the man on the left?


47 posted on 08/09/2004 10:03:15 AM PDT by Old Sarge (JFKerry: It Takes An Idiot To Raze A Village!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies]

To: finnman69

Is Kerry a puffed-up liar?


48 posted on 08/09/2004 10:04:22 AM PDT by GOPJ
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Old Sarge
Kerry is wearing "his" ribbons.

Was this picture taken before or after he threw them over the fence?

49 posted on 08/09/2004 10:07:10 AM PDT by F-117A
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: blake6900

Odell was on H&C last week and when he started to tell this story about the boat hitting a mine and 4 men going overboard, Susan Ostrich cut him off and didn't let him finish. Hannity let her get away with it.


50 posted on 08/09/2004 10:09:45 AM PDT by KMG365
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: js1138

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1185354/posts


51 posted on 08/09/2004 10:10:20 AM PDT by tobyhill (The war on terrorism is not for the weak!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

Mentioned here. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1185436/posts?page=100#100


52 posted on 08/09/2004 10:11:31 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (They are where you least expect. Look around and you'll see them too.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: F-117A
Was this picture taken before or after he threw them over the fence?

That question has no business being asked, since it defames the integrity of America's most famous combat veteran! How dare you - you haven't walked the walk!

< /DNC TalkPoint>

53 posted on 08/09/2004 10:12:21 AM PDT by Old Sarge (JFKerry: It Takes An Idiot To Raze A Village!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 49 | View Replies]

To: MindBender26

THANKS.

HOPEFULNESS IS GREAT.


54 posted on 08/09/2004 10:12:45 AM PDT by Quix (PRAYER WARRIORS, DO YOUR STUFF! LIVES AND NATIONS DEPEND ON IT)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tobyhill
I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia. I remember what it was like to be shot at by the Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge and Cambodians, and have the president of the United States telling the American people that I was not there; the troops were not in Cambodia. I have that memory which is seared—seared—in me.

Kerry also described, for example, for the Boston Herald his vivid memories of his Christmas Eve spent in Cambodia:

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 claimed there were no American troops was very real.

Interesting...

55 posted on 08/09/2004 10:13:16 AM PDT by js1138 (In a minute there is time, for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. J Forbes Kerry)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

Pretty good, Yachtsman.


56 posted on 08/09/2004 10:14:03 AM PDT by expatpat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: Cboldt
He made the "Nixon" comment in a discussion with a Boston Globe reporter, not in a speech on the floor of the US Senate.

Freud at work. My guess is he made the same statement in the Senate, and a staffer had it corrected in the Record.

57 posted on 08/09/2004 10:15:06 AM PDT by js1138 (In a minute there is time, for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. J Forbes Kerry)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 44 | View Replies]

To: blake6900

http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2004/07/22/76146.php?sp1=rgj&sp2=News&sp3=Local+News&sp5=RGJ.com&sp6=news&sp7=local_news

Instead, Rassmann is recounting the story of March 13, 1969, over and over again to reporters, Kerry supporters and veterans. He is a scheduled speaker July 29 at the Democratic National Convention in Boston.

Rassmann, a first lieutenant in the Army special forces, was eating a chocolate chip cookie on Kerry’s patrol boat as it pulled back from a fire fight when a nearby boat hit a mine. During the ensuing combat, Kerry’s boat was rocked by another explosion, which injured Kerry and tossed Rassmann into the water.

Worried that retreating boats would run him over, Rassmann said he swam to the bottom of the river and waited for the fleet to pass. When he surfaced, the boats were gone and the enemy was shooting at him from the riverbanks.

Rassmann said he started a swim for the north bank. But within minutes — a period of time that felt like “six or seven years” — he saw a boat returning for him.

When the boat, captained by Kerry, passed over him, Rassmann grabbed a net hooked to the bow and climbed onto the side of the boat. But he couldn’t manage to get over the railing and into the boat.

“This fire is continuing and I expected I was the perfect target,” he said. “Next thing I know, John comes running out of the pilot house and up toward me up on the bow. And I didn’t get shot. I mean, it was a miracle neither one of us got shot. And he got down on his hands and knees and pulled me over and we got up.”

The act won Kerry a Bronze Star Medal.

Kerry and Rassmann parted that day and didn’t speak again until this year.


58 posted on 08/09/2004 10:16:54 AM PDT by adam_az (Call your State Republican Party office and VOLUNTEER!!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: tobyhill

The face is familiar, but alas it is too long ago.


59 posted on 08/09/2004 10:17:15 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (They are where you least expect. Look around and you'll see them too.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 41 | View Replies]

To: Grampa Dave
"Kerry's aggressiveness in combat caused a commanding officer to wonder whether he should be given a medal or court-martialed."

Hmmm, but Kerry now sends attack dogs to say that same man is lying.

"But his father, Richard Kerry - a test pilot who served in the Army Air Corps - warned him that if he flew in combat, he might lose his love of flying."

Not to mention go down to his flaming death. Kerry's a coward that wanted to be herioc, which is why he says:

"I didn't really want to get involved in the war. When I signed up for the swift boats, they had very little to do with the war. They were engaged in coastal patrolling and that's what I thought I was going to be doing."

But then he was...horror of horros, expected to get involved in the war!

"He was running away with a live B-40, and, I thought, poised to turn around and fire it." Asked whether that meant Kerry shot the guerrilla in the back, Kerry said, "No, absolutely not. He was hurt, other guys were shooting from back, side, back."

So Kerry and the VC were running back to back when Kerry shot him?

60 posted on 08/09/2004 10:19:31 AM PDT by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions=Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 261-266 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson