Posted on 08/13/2004 7:18:34 PM PDT by Jim_Curtis
Do you have any pets that have made an impact on you personally? Kerry: I have always had pets in my life and there are a few that I remember very fondly. When I was serving on a swiftboat in Vietnam, my crewmates and I had a dog we called VC. We all took care of him, and he stayed with us and loved riding on the swiftboat deck. I think he provided all of us with a link to home and a few moments of peace and tranquility during a dangerous time. One day as our swiftboat was heading up a river, a mine exploded hard under our boat. After picking ourselves up, we discovered VC was MIA. Several minutes of frantic search followed after which we thought we'd lost him. We were relieved when another boat called asking if we were missing a dog. It turns out VC was catapulted from the deck of our boat and landed confused, but unhurt, on the deck of another boat in our patrol.
The dog's name was Teresa......
That's another dog story. That dog is from Pittsburgh, not Vietnam.
Do you think the Hillary & Co. may have an October surprise planned for Bush or Kerry?
Well, you see, the dog served with Kerry before ....BOOM!....he didn't serve with Kerry.
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Road to Nowhere
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BUT WE DON'T KNOW WHERE WE'VE BEEN
AND WE KNOW WHAT WE'RE KNOWIN'
BUT WE CAN'T SAY WHAT WE'VE SEEN
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and it's all right, baby, it's all right
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and you could help me sing this song?
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Records Counter a Critic of Kerry <-- Link
Thurlow's Bronze Star citation mentions enemy small arms fire.
This was exactly what I was worried about. If there was a legitimate explanation they should have had it out there from the beginning.
That would certainly have reduced the credibility impact against Thurlow and by implication, SBVFT. At the same time, leaving an opening for the media, bait if you will, the complete story is more likely to make national prominence.
Perhaps a good explanation will be forthcoming, I don't know. The recommendation for Thurlow's Bronze Star medal was approved in June 1969, some months after the incident, and perhaps he "blew off" what it said, since Kerry was gone from his life. But Thurlow did not put himself in, so didn't "lie" to get the award. At worst he is to be faulted for not raising a ruckus and attempting to return it when he received it and the citation letter.
And, even if Thurlow is tarred, that doesn't mean Kerry shouldn't be tarred, even worse IMO for recommending an award with materially inaccurate testimony.
"A new four-legged angle — actually a dog named "VC" — has suddenly materialized surrounding Sen. John Kerry's swift boat service in Vietnam. In a 2004 presidential candidate questionnaire for Humane USA, Mr. Kerry was asked whether any pets have had an impact on his life. "I have always had pets in my life, and there are a few that I remember very fondly," Mr. Kerry replied. "When I was serving on a Swift Boat in Vietnam, my crewmates and I had a dog we called VC. "One day as our Swift Boat was heading up a river, a mine exploded hard under our boat," he continued. "After picking ourselves up, we discovered VC was MIA (missing in action). Several minutes of frantic search followed, after which we thought we'd lost him. We were relieved when another boat called asking if we were missing a dog." Said Mr. Kerry: "It turns out VC was catapulted from the deck of our boat and landed, confused but unhurt, on the deck of another boat in our patrol." J.J. Scheele, program director of Humane USA, confirmed yesterday that her organization did, in fact, receive the above statement from the Kerry campaign. No military records on Mr. Kerry's Web site, which aides say is a complete accounting, mention a mine exploding under his boat or any dog. The only report of a mine detonating "near" Mr. Kerry's PCF 94 was March 13, 1969, when Mr. Kerry says he was injured and a man knocked overboard."
Nope.
Kerry has noting else EXCEPT Vietnam, and is obsessed (almost irrationally/psychotically ?) with HIS OWN distorted and irrational view of Vietnam.
To the point of building a "shrine" in his Senate office of his medals, of getting his citation re-signed 15 YEARS after Vietnam by Lehman, of getting his DD214 modified in 2001 to add EVEN MORE decorations to his chest, to adding EVERY TIME a more "cute stories" like this in answer to EVERY personal description ...
Does that sound "healthy" to you?
How could the dog claim to serve ON Kerry's boat iffen it was gettin' launched OFF Kerry's boat every time Kerry's boat hit a mine?
Hell! If I were Kerry's crewman I'D worry about more about falling OFF Kerry's boat than servin' ON Kerry's boat: Seems like everybody else kept fallin' OFF his boat evry time he turned around..
Several hundred yards away??????
And THAT'S where Kerry claims Rassmun was in the water (when he turned around to get him?
Kerry and Rassmann have quite a few different versions for the events of that day. Rassmann was in the water for several minutes, and in one account, says he saw Kerry's boat returning "from around the bend." Also, there is no evidence that Kerry's boat hit a mine. PCF-3 hit a mine, and was damaged badly enough as a result that it had to be towed back to port. PCF-94, Kerry's boat, did the towing that day.
Here is a good post, in a good thread re: the many incarnations of the Bronze Star incident:
Bronze Star <-- But check the whole thread
There are other threads that cover the same subject, including one that dissects the Washington Post story (the story with the graphic, that fails to mention ZERO bullet holes, and the one hour+ time on scene).
To your narrow point about several hundred yards, the MINIMUM distance between the boats would have them immediately opposite each other in the 75 yard wide channel. I'd say a fair minimum distance is 50 yards. But the dog story is pure, unadulterated BS.
I would think that a swift boat taking a direct hard hit as a result of a mine would have at least disabled it and at worst destroyed and sunk it.
John Kerry will be elected President when dogs fly.
Well, I've heard of a "shaggy dog story" before, but that's just ridiculous! God help us all if this pathological liar gets into the White House.
Leni
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