Posted on 09/01/2004 10:38:21 AM PDT by BushisTheMan
Does anyone know the identity of the guys on the cover of Kerry's book?
I'd certainly like to hear from them today. If they are still anti-war and bitter, it hurts Kerry. If they regret their actions, it still hurts Kerry.
Win/Win
I would guess that most of them are the fat poor old bald men who sell tie-dye shirts and hash to the kids outside Phish concerts.
One posted an aplogia on wintersoldier.com, Special section.
Dope smokin' brainwashed maggots
Many of the people associated with Kerry then did not actually serve or didn't serve as they'd implied. He was taken in by them - duped. He never cared much though. Any wind will blow him and the truth isn't much of an issue.
They were probably the same guys that Kerry was talking about during his baby killer speech to congress. You know...The guys that never even served.
Wouldn't surprise me if a few of them were never in the service.
There is some question as to whether the "soldiers" on the cover and some of those quoted inside were actually soldiers at all!
I knew somebody was gonna beat me with that comment, lol!
I doubt that. More likely, he knew exactly who/what they were or were not, and was using them.
Maybe their names are listed on the inside of the book. Or the photographer has the names. Usually releases are needed for such a cover photo.
Do you have a direct link to it?
Download the book in .pdf format here.
John Kerry: Author, US Senator, presumptive Presidential Candidate
and, Heaven forbid, possible Commander in Chief!
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The New Soldier NY: Collier Books, 1971 Soft Cover. 11x8". Edited by David Thorne & George Butler. 174pp. Numerous b/w photos. Includes excerpts from Kerry's statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, April 22, 1971, and an Epilogue by J.K. Some. |
http://www.independentsforkerry.org/uploads/media/the-new-soldier.html
one of them was Phil Lavoie.
"Phony Vietnam veterans alleged in books
Guenter Lewy's 1978 book America in Vietnam (pages 316-317) and B.G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley's Stolen Valor (Verity Press, Inc., Dallas, Texas)(pages 113, 131-137) contain similar information about alleged flaws in Lane's book. Neither book, however, refutes any of the testimony given during the Winter Soldier Investigation.
Lawyer and leftist activist Mark Lane was one of the organizers of Winter Soldier. In 1970, Lane had published a book called Conversations With Americans purporting to be interviews with Vietnam veterans about war crimes, containing Vietnam tales of atrocities. Reporter Neil Sheehan showed some interviewed in Lane's book had never served in Vietnam and others had not been in the situations they described. Lane admitted he did not check military records, as confirmation of details was not relevant. Lane later confirmed these militarty records.
The following are often falsely listed as being participants in Winter Soldier, but were actually in Lane's book instead. This confusion is probably due to Stolen Valor having an explanation of Lane's history within the section on Winter Soldier.
Chuck Onan, stock room clerk in Beaufort, S.C.
Michael Schneider, deserted in Europe and deserted again in the USA.
Terry Whitmore, was in an unpopulated area of Vietnam.
Garry Gianninoto, medical corpsman at battalion headquarters.
VVAW leader and Winter Soldier co-organizer Al Hubbard lied about being an officer, and sustaining war injuries - but he never testified at Winter Soldier .
According to the investigative work of Burkett, Lewy and others, there were many imposters, liars, and plain nutjobs who infiltrated the ranks of the anti-war movement, and, in some cases, testified to war crimes and atrocities that never occurred in order to get attention, sympathy, and, in one documented case, medals and honors."
http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/W/Winter-Soldier-Investigation.htm
Thanks for that link. Infuriating reading.
Is that the same goofball who wrote the JFK assasination book???
I have no idea what you are talking about.
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