PULITZER WINNER BEHIND KERRY POW FILM (MUST SEE THIS!)

World Net Daily ^ | 8/28/04

[areafiftyone]

Decorated Marine's TV documentary portrays 'betrayal' of vets

A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and highly decorated Vietnam veteran is behind a new television documentary that features devastating testimony by former POWs of the demoralizing impact of John Kerry's war-crimes accusations more than 30 years ago.

As WorldNetDaily first reported, the film will be released in September on the heels of a television ad by Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth, which charges Kerry with betrayal for accusing them of war atrocities during his testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971.

But producer Carlton Sherwood says his Red, White and Blue Productions was planning the documentary even before the first ad by the swiftboat vets.

Sherwood also has won a Peabody Award, and The Carlton Sherwood Media Award is named in his honor.

The documentary, titled "Stolen Honor," now has its own website, which includes sample interviews.

Currently in the final stages of production, it will be available for broadcast and on DVD and VHS video, according to Red, White and Blue Productions.

The film, according to the website, "investigates how John Kerry's actions during the Vietnam era impacted the treatment of American soldiers and POWs. Using John Kerry's own words, the documentary juxtaposes John Kerry's actions with the words of veterans who were still in Vietnam when John Kerry was leading the anti-war movement."

In a March 12 story by Fox News, Sherwood was noted as being among the veterans who consider Kerry's 1971 testimony slanderous and concocted to push a political agenda.

"He knew as an officer that those were lies. It never happened," said Sherwood. "He was principally responsible for cementing the image of Vietnam veterans as drugged-out psychopaths who were totally unrestrained and who were a murderous hoard."

Among the POWs whose voices are heard in the film are two who spent seven years in prison, Ralph Gaither, a two-time Navy Silver Star winner, and Gen. Robinson Risner.

The film's narration includes:

"In other wars, captured Americans subjected to the hell of an enemy prison were considered heroes. In other wars, they were not abandoned. In Vietnam , they were betrayed."

"Little did the American prisoners of war imagine that half a world away events were conspiring to make their precarious situation even more desperate. That an American Naval lieutenant after a four-month tour of duty in Vietnam was meeting secretly in an undisclosed location in Paris with a top enemy diplomat. That this same lieutenant would later join forces with Jane Fonda to form an antiwar group of so-called Vietnam veterans, some of whom would be later discovered as frauds who never set foot on a battlefield. All this culminating in John Kerry's Senate testimony that would be blared over loud speakers to convince our prisoners that back home they were being accused and abandoned. Enemy propagandists had found a new and willing accomplice."

Red, White & Blue Productions is a for-profit corporation based in Harrisburg, Pa.

Veterans provided the initial funding of the film's production costs, the company says, adding it welcomes financial support for its distribution and dissemination.

Sherwood won a Pulitzer Prize for his investigative reporting of a Catholic scandal involving the Pauline Fathers of Doylestown, Pa. He also is known for his inside investigation of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. Sherwood said he entered the probe hoping to uncover dirt about the leader but ended up concluding Moon and his followers "were and continued to be the victims of the worst kind of religious prejudice and racial bigotry this country has witnessed in over a century."

[2nd amendment mama]

Bump for bookmark

[Crawdad]

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

[Stashiu]

I was at my combat ptsd group on Friday. I'll tell you how we are doing.

Most of us are really getting torqued up. To hear that man's testimony again, and hear that he 'stands by it' is almost too much to bear. You see many of us came back with some very painful memories. We had to do things to survive that were not pretty. It is normal to be affected by that.

However, the reception we got on our return, convinced most of us to just try and forget about it. That is the WORST thing you can do with war trauma. You have to be able to process it so it will not haunt you as much.

I, and many other Nam Vets, hold Kerry, the VVAW, and Fonda personally responsible for this. What they did was despicable. The damage is irreparable. That is not even counting what they did to the POW's.

I am so sick and tired of seeing guys with that 1000 yd. stare who have had a living hell for the past 35 years. Most of this was preventable. This is Kerry's legacy.

On Friday, one of our guys was finally able to talk about when his chopper (he was a door gunner) went to extract a copter team that had been shot down. When they got there, the crew had been stripped, strung up my their feet, genitals cut off and in their mouthes. They knew all of them. As they returned, they came upon the VC wearing the clothes of the copter team. There were no prisoners taken. A crew member had to pull him off the .50 caliber gun.

He still is dealing with the sting of being called a war criminal. Was that a war crime? Go witness what he did, find the perpetrators and tell my what you would do.

You see, Kerry never presented any information about the VC or how any of these 'war crimes' happened. He never related the horror stories of how the VC treated prisoners, dead, wounded or alive. He doesn't talk about a whole village's children who had their left arms cut off, because the US Medics had gone there to vaccinate them, and the VC found out. He didn't talk to a Vietnamese woman who did some work for us whose 3rd husband had been killed by the VC because she worked on the American base camp.

Anyway, he will not be getting many votes from his 'band of brothers'.

[handy]

Media Reaction - Michael Moore had this to say about Stolen Honor "To call this a documentary is a travesty. It's full of out of context quotes and outright lies". Mr. Moore went onto say blah blah blah

[LADY J]

Watching the videos bring tears to your eyes.

How could a person like Kerry live with himself and look in the mirror each day when he knows what he did to the prisoners of war!

How can McCain stand up for such a despicable person?

The two of them must have the MIA problem to cover up and need to support each other.

[rubofthebrush]

I would like to be a fly on the wall in the Kerry campaign headquarters or the DNC right now.

Why would a fly hang out on the wall when there's sooo much $hit available...?

[Dog]

Shermy ....I found something about this secret visit... a couple weeks ago while researching Kerry's trip to Paris......let me see if I can retrace my steps and find it..

[KB4W]

Good

Payback Ping

[tame]

ping

[Chaguito]

Great stuff. The interviews are 'way too long and I hope will be edited for the documentary. But they are devastating.

[areafiftyone]

This just keeps getting better and better. It all started with Vietnam Veterans against John Kerry, then Swift Boat Veterans For Truth and now this. Amazing. The Vets and all Vietnam vets are finally having a voice! God Bless them all.

[GretchenM]

Bumping for this: "Veterans provided the initial funding of the film's production costs, the company says, adding it welcomes financial support for its distribution and dissemination.", and to say I'm glad Gen. Robinson Risner is among those interviewed.

[lonevoice]

The John Fraud Kerry campaign will be reeling on the ropes soon.

[auboy]

A 'let there be light' bump!

[ThreePuttinDude]

God Bless you Brother....

[2nd amendment mama]

The interviews are 'way too long and I hope will be edited for the documentary.

I don't think they are too long. Remember, these men have waited 30 years to be able to tell their side of this! Let them speak however long they want! These men don't sound vindictive they just want the truth about JF'nK to come out and they're sick and tired of being labeled as "war criminals".

[altura]

That poll was hard. I wanted to do the "all" thing as well.

Eventually, I checked the "because he focused on it at the convention" because he's own behavior makes it relevant today in his presidential run.

Of course, what offended me most was his treatment of the comrades he left behind.

[uncbob]

How the hell ush and McCain can still say Kerry honorably served his country is beyond me

Both ought to BUTT OUT and say it is between Kerry and the vets PERIOD

[ThreePuttinDude]

The John Fraud Kerry campaign will be reeling on the ropes soon.



They need to stay away from these ropes.

[uncbob]

ou see, Kerry never presented any information about the VC or how any of these 'war crimes'

And the MSM NEVER covered the daily atrocities by the Viet Kong and North Vietnamese where the atrocities were part of the overall strategy
And the commies in Hollywood NEVER show all that in their movies degrading the USA military in Vietnam