Only one guardsman from that era has said he remembers Bush reporting in Alabama, where he had been allowed to transfer to help run the U.S. Senate campaign of family friend Winton "Red" Blount.
That officer, Lt. Col. John Calhoun, has said he saw Bush several times at Dannelly Field near Montgomery, Ala. But Calhoun said he made the sightings on dates the White House had already conceded that Bush did not serve.
This is flat out false. Below are just a sampling of the numerous witnesses who came forward back in February. Many, if not most of them, were interviewed in local papers, which the Big Media refused to pick up on. Again, this is just a sampling, because not all of the eyewitness stories were properly archived at the time:
Articles indexed to wguardwitness (in order of time indexed.)
| Former Dannelly worker: Bush not AWOL [another eyewitness steps forward] |
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| Posted by ambrose On News/Activism 02/16/2004 4:19:13 PM PST · 101 replies · 110+ views THE DECATUR DAILY ^ | 2.16.04 | Eric Fleischauer Former Dannelly worker: Bush not AWOL By Eric Fleischauer DAILY Staff Writer eric@decaturdaily.com · 340-2435 Retired Master Sgt. James Copeland does not care so much whether people think President Bush went absent without leave in 1972, but one thing he hears bothers him plenty. "Maybe the Bush family was well known in Texas, but we didn't know who he was here. He was just another guy in a flight jacket," Copeland said Sunday. Copeland, who lives in Hartselle, retired from the Air Force on Jan. 31, 1980. He was the disbursement accounting supervisor, a full-time position, for Dannelly Air National... |
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| Memories place Bush in Alabama if records don't ["Why are you still whipping this dead horse?"] |
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| Posted by ambrose On News/Activism 02/13/2004 10:23:44 PM PST · 11 replies · 55+ views Atlanta Journal Constitution ^ | 2.14.04 Memories place Bush in Alabama if records don't By DAVE HIRSCHMAN in Montgomery , MONI BASU in Atlanta The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 02/13/04 The search for proof that young Lt. George W. Bush worked weekends at an Air Force base in Montgomery, 32 years ago has taken on a strange, forensic quality. Family photo (ENLARGE) Lt. Col. John "Bill" Calhoun said he saw the future president each drill period when both men were serving in the National Guard in Montgomery. EMAIL THISPRINT THISMOST POPULAR Dusty dental records and copies of old pay stubs provided by the White House are... |
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| Doctor Recalls Treating Bush |
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| Posted by Hon On News/Activism 02/15/2004 2:00:58 PM PST · 64 replies · 40+ views Montgomery Advertiser ^ | February 15, 2004 | Jessica M. Walker <p>A retired Air National Guard physician recalls giving President Bush a physical in 1972, his son said Saturday, adding another memory to the small but growing pool of recollections of Bush's military service in Montgomery.</p> <p>The memories of Bush's service contradict a dearth of paperwork surrounding his time assigned to the Alabama Air National Guard, but a retired Air National Guard personnel officer said the lack of records could very well be the result of shoddy record-keeping, as opposed to deliquence on Bush's part.</p> |
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| Joppa man: Bush served in Guard in '72 |
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| Posted by Conservative Coulter Fan On News/Activism 02/21/2004 9:57:49 AM PST · 11 replies · 53+ views THE DECATUR DAILY ^ | Eric Fleischauer Not only was George W. Bush fulfilling his National Guard duties in 1972, he was already showing the conservative political ideology that is now the bane of many Democrats, according to a Joppa man. Joe Holcombe, 71, was the office manager for Winton "Red" Blount in his unsuccessful race for the U.S. Senate in 1972. Bush was the county coordinator for Blount's campaign, Holcombe said. The Blount family and the Bush family were good friends, Holcombe said. Blount lost to Morgan County native and U.S. Sen. John Sparkman. Bush joined Blount's campaign "a little before or a little after the... |
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