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Evidence Shows Crewmate Rev. Alston Never Served Under Sen. Kerry
August 10, 2004 | The Bandit

Posted on 08/10/2004 10:21:42 PM PDT by The Bandit

For years now we have been lead to believe that both Sen. Kerry and the Rev. David Alston had served together on the PCF-94 in Vietnam, and therefore, making David Alston an eyewitness to Kerry's actions and heroism. The fact that Sen. Kerry has used a famous photo of himself together with David Alston and other crewmates while serving on swift boats in Vietnam, left little reason to believe anything differently. As with most anything having to do with Sen. Kerry -- nothing is ever as it first appears to be.

There can be little doubt that Sen. Kerry and David Alston wanted to deceive people into believing the two served together on the PCF-94 swift boat by the following statements:

David Alston  said of Kerry, "We were in a lot of firefights," Alston said. "You learn a lot about people. After a firefight, John would come up to me and he would put his hand on me and he'd say, 'David, are you all right?'"  And Kerry added: "I didn't know then that I had a man of God on my boat. That's probably why I'm here today." (Orlando Sentinel, 1/31/04)

"I stand here before you only because almighty God saw our boat safely through those rivers of death and destruction, by giving us a brave, wise, and decisive leader named John Kerry." (David Alston in a speech before the Democratic Convention, and the world.)

Rev. David Alston says, "When the bullets started to hit the side of the ship, we found out that John Kerry [could] lead. (Kerry for President Campaign Ad that aired early February '04)

Only problem with the above statements is that the are flat out false because David Alston was never a crew member under Sen. Kerry nor could he had ever participated in combat operations with Sen. Kerry because they were from two different boats. From December to January 29, 1969 Sen. Kerry commanded the PCF-44 while David Alston was the Gunner onboard the PCF-94 under Lt.(jg) Peck. On January 29, 1969 both Peck and Alston were wounded and hospitalized. We know Alston was wounded on that date because his causality report was made available briefly by the Kerry Campaign before they removed it. Here is what it said:

AWFA: GMG2 DAVID MARION Alston, USN, 99T 57 46
BRAVO: ACTIVE DUTY, ATTACHED TO COASTAL DIVISION ELEVEN AT AN THOI, RVN
CHARLIE: INJURY, HOSTILE FIRE
DELTA: 29, JAN 69, 1030H, SONG CUA LON - SONG BO DE, WHILE SERVING AS FORWARD GUNNER ABOARD PCF 94, ENGAGED IN CORDON AND SEARCH OPERATIONS IN THE ABOVE RIVER, GMG2 Alston RECEIVED SHRAPNEL WOUNDS TO HIS HEAD WHEN PCF CAME UNDER INTENSE HOSTILE ROCKET AND A/W FIRE.
ECHO: CONDITION GOOD, PROGNOSIS GOOD. PRESENCE OF NOK IS NOT MEDICALLY WARRANTED AS REPORTED BY CORPSMAN.
FOXTROT: MRS. IDA MCQUILLAR Alston, MOTHER
GOLF: NOK NOT OFFICIALLY NOTIFIED. REQ NOK NOT REPEAT NOT BE NOTIFIED.
HOTEL: SERVICEMAN TREATED BY CORPSMAN AND MEDEVACED TO 29TH EVAC HOSP. BINH THUY.
2. PATIENT ABL TO COMMUNICATE WITH NOK.
3. NO FURTHER INFO WILL FOLLOW.

This confirms the date of David Alston's wounds, but it does not tell how seriously wounded David Alston was. There is no military medical records available for David Alston, and you cannot go by the causality reports description of good and prognosis is good because they will always say that even if you had both legs shattered -- and then there is the fact no medical doctor had yet evaluated him. But we can today see the severity of the wound Alston suffered as shown below from as Rev. Alston stood before recent Democratic Convention delegates.

alston.jpg (19740 bytes)

As one can see, it was a sever wound indeed, and Alston most likely lost tissue and scalp from this injury. This is important evidence for dating another picture of him with Sen. Kerry below.

 

ker_crew.jpg (49728 bytes)

Now let's take a closer look at Alston.

alston_closeup.jpg (24270 bytes)

 

No signs of a serious head wound, or the treatment of such a wound, which would had required visible head shaving that still  would have been visible weeks later if this picture was taken in early March as sometimes suggested by writers. Thus, we can be confident that the picture in question was taken prior to January 29, 1969 when Sen. Kerry was still skipper of the PCF-44 and Alston was the gunner on the PCF-94. How did Sen. Kerry get in this picture then? We know Coastal Division 11 and 13 were participating in joint operations in January of 1969 from the Command History of Division 11 released by the Navy, and no doubt that the crews from each division shared the same faculties and socialize among themselves.

Now that we know when and how Alston was wounded, we can see how Alston could not have been part of Sen. Kerry's crew on the PCF-94 because he had been replaced, just as the wounded Lt. Peck had been replaced by Kerry after the January 29th incident that lead to both Alston and Peck being hospitalized. Was David Alston able to return to the PCF-94 during anytime between February 1 and March 13, Kerry's last combat mission? No evidence that he did or even the suggestion he physically could have with the injury he had suffered,  because we know that on February 28, 1969, Fred Short was onboard and described as an replacement for a wounded David Alston. We Know David Alston was not onboard for Kerry's last combat mission on March 13, either. Therefore, we can confidently say David Alston was never part of Kerry's PCF-94 crew from February 1 through March 13, 1969 because he was still recovering from his head wounds.

Now we need to answer whether David Alston could had been able to participate in combat missions with Kerry from a different swift boat? Looking at the daily combat missions for Coastal Division 11 we do not find both the PCF-44 (Kerry's boat) and the PCF-94 (Alston's boat) involved in any joint missions together. This conclusion is further supported by the fact David Alston or any other Kerry supporter has ever ventured to describe specific missions that Alston and Kerry could have participated in. All discussion of Alston and Kerry together is vague, generalized and non-specific.

Everything we were told by David Alston, Sen. Kerry and his people are clearly false about in regards to Kerry's relationship with David Alston. This is not a mere little slip of the tongue, but an orchestrated scheme over the last few years to outright deceive people about Sen. Kerry's military service. Why did the Rev. David Alston put himself into this position of deception and lies?

"I owe John Kerry my life,"  the Rev. David Alston was quoted as saying, "But John Kerry owes his life to me, too." This just might be true, but not in the sense that Kerry saved Alston's life during Vietnam, but for what he may have done for Alston after Vietnam and what Alston is doing for Kerry now for his run for the White House.

After both Kerry and Alston departed Vietnam, the two stayed in contact and Kerry had invited Alston to his first wedding, to Julia Thorne in 1970, and sent Christmas cards to Alston's parents' house. Kerry aides contacted Alston in 1996, after a story in a Boston paper "accusing him of being a killer," Alston told the Charlotte Observer.

"That was just false, and I was happy to tell people that," Alston said. "In Vietnam, killing an enemy soldier meant saving men's lives. It was something that had to be done." The incident in question here was on February 28, 1969, for which Alston was not part in because he was recovering from a head wound.

David Alston's mother-in-law, Beulah Lowery, has said: "He didn't like to talk about it [Vietnam], so we didn't press him," Lowery said. "But David always appreciated what he (Kerry) did for them. He talked real nice about him." Was Sen. Kerry so good to the Rev. Alston that Alston would do anything for him, like mislead voters on his behalf? Only David Alston can answer this question.

Another troubling question arises from this disclosure -- why haven't the rest of Sen. Kerry's supporting "Band of Brothers" stepped forward and correct the record of the Kerry/Alston relationship, something they know firsthand cannot be possible? Perhaps we will be find Kerry has been very good to them as well.



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KEYWORDS: alston; crewmembers; davidalston; deception; fraud; kerry; lies; swiftboats; vietnam
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1 posted on 08/10/2004 10:21:43 PM PDT by The Bandit
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To: The Bandit
I don't know about the accuracy of the contents.......

Swift Boat Crew Directory

Kerry is listed as an OinC on PFC 66 with Alston a member of crew 58B.

FWIW

2 posted on 08/10/2004 10:28:48 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: The Bandit

Ha! I knew there was something fishy about the men standing behind Kerry. I've been trying to get a list of their names. Anybody have one?


3 posted on 08/10/2004 10:29:28 PM PDT by coconutt2000
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To: The Bandit; Travis McGee
ALERT DRUDGE, HEWITT, HANNITY, LIMBAUGH and all the rest!!!

We got another hot one here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4 posted on 08/10/2004 10:30:03 PM PDT by GeronL (geocities.com/geronl is back, or will be)
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To: The Bandit

So, if he wasn't on the boat with Kerry, he didn't SERVE with Kerry. So, anything he says about Kerry is false.

What's good for the goose, and all that.


5 posted on 08/10/2004 10:30:50 PM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (Liberals - The Other White Meat.)
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To: The Bandit

Awesome.


6 posted on 08/10/2004 10:31:00 PM PDT by lainie
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet; Howlin

Check this out!


7 posted on 08/10/2004 10:31:34 PM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (Liberals - The Other White Meat.)
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To: The Bandit; hole_n_one

How much confirmation of this have there been??


8 posted on 08/10/2004 10:31:58 PM PDT by GeronL (geocities.com/geronl is back, or will be)
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To: hole_n_one

Yeah....some of its info is out of wack.

But hey, still an interesting site.

As for the original post....will have to digest the info.

They were pictured together....hard to imagine them not serving together due to this fact. Why would they "stage" a picture?


9 posted on 08/10/2004 10:32:21 PM PDT by rwfromkansas (BYPASS FORCED WEB REGISTRATION! **** http://www.bugmenot.com ****)
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To: The Bandit
You've done it again! You're a first-class researcher.

For The Bandit's previous thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1187030/posts

10 posted on 08/10/2004 10:33:39 PM PDT by lonevoice (Some things have to be believed to be seen)
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To: The Bandit

This explains why the Peaceniks who protest President Bush have signs that say 'LIES,LIES, LIES!" They are referring to Kerry! All this time I thought they meant Bush! :-)


11 posted on 08/10/2004 10:34:31 PM PDT by ladyinred (What if the hokey pokey IS what it's all about?)
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To: ladyinred

ROTFL...


12 posted on 08/10/2004 10:35:46 PM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (Liberals - The Other White Meat.)
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How about a link to this, or at least links to the information... sources ya know? :)


13 posted on 08/10/2004 10:36:55 PM PDT by oolatec
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To: The Bandit

It is very hard to determine just how severe his head injury was. He has a large keloid scar on his scalp which would develop over time. He may have simply had a scalp laceration and the scar may have grown over time.


14 posted on 08/10/2004 10:38:35 PM PDT by MediaMole
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To: The Bandit

That is super analysis!

Thank you so much!


15 posted on 08/10/2004 10:38:38 PM PDT by Incorrigible (immanentizing the eschaton)
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What I really like is that this is just another example of how the scary Free republic-led Vast Right Wing Conspiracy is going after Kerry...

Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaahaahahahahahaha


16 posted on 08/10/2004 10:39:04 PM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (Liberals - The Other White Meat.)
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To: The Bandit
The timing of this is suspiciousTM
17 posted on 08/10/2004 10:39:36 PM PDT by sixmil
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To: The Bandit

Bump It Up!

Good digging!


18 posted on 08/10/2004 10:40:26 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi .. Proud member of the FR Special Ops manuremovers crew .. moving manure&opinion since '96)
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To: Chad Fairbanks

WOW.


19 posted on 08/10/2004 10:40:28 PM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (Some of my best friends are white, middle-class males.)
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To: lainie

Another day, another lie....just like ole Mud Bone said: "He would tell a lie and I would tell a lie; that was his job, I'm pretty sure because that's all he did".


20 posted on 08/10/2004 10:40:36 PM PDT by RVN Airplane Driver (www.RealHeroesVoices.com....see the real John Kerry)
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