In a telephone interview Tuesday evening after he attended a Swift Boat Veterans strategy session in an Arlington hotel, Thurlow said he lost his Bronze Star citation more than 20 years ago. He said he was unwilling to authorize release of his military records because he feared attempts by the Kerry campaign to discredit him and other anti-Kerry veterans.
The Post filed an independent request for the documents with the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, which is the central repository for veterans' records. The documents were faxed to The Post by officials at the records center yesterday.
That's just it - the documents. WHAT documents? Maybe they're just lying about it.
Could it be they are referring not to any citation given to Thurlow, but to the language of what may be a recently uploaded Award Recommendation - FOR KERRY? In that, both Thurlow and Lambert are recommended for Bronze Stars. But neither man would have seen this exaggerated write-up, likely from Kerry himself. And this was not the citation either would have received.