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Posted on 10/03/2004 10:32:04 AM PDT by X180A
A faded 35-year-old operations order recovered from the Naval Historical Center in Washington bears directly on the ongoing dispute between Senator Kerry and the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth about who wrote the key after-action report that ended Mr. Kerry's service in Vietnam. The report appears in the official Navy records and is posted on Mr. Kerry's campaign Web site.
According to a Navy communications expert, Troy Jenkins, who has examined the message traffic, the report in question was sent from the USCGC Spencer, Commander Lonsdale's command ship, at 11:20 that night. Only three of the officers on the mission that day were on the Spencer: John Kerry, Dick Pease, and Donald Droz. Droz took the wounded from the mine explosion to be examined and treated at the Spencer, including the third officer, the severely wounded Dick Pease. Since the Spencer had no helipad for the evacuation of the wounded, Mr. Droz then had to return to the USS Washtenaw County, an LST stationed about 25 nautical miles away, for medevac, leaving only Mr. Kerry aboard the Spencer at the time the message was sent at 11:20 that night.
Kerry spokesmen have repeatedly insisted that Mr. Kerry denies writing the report and that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth were arguing with the official Navy record. But if "the official Navy record" now turns out to have been written by Mr. Kerry himself, the principal beneficiary of its glowing references to his performance, the Swift Boat critics' charges look far more consequential.
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
gotta have a password to read it
Pretty sure this was posted last week.
Interesting, but too bad you gotta provide credit card info(to pay after a free 30 day trial) to view the entire article.
yea can someone post the rest of it in sections? or will they sue us?
The swifties need to put this in ad form, along with the SecNav (Lehman)denials.
Hanoi Kerry : Is this one of your October suprises? Tick, Tick, Tick PING!
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Someone should interview the USCGC Spencer radioman... typically these reports were either delivered to radio in handwritten form or verbally submitted to be typed out on teletype..
http://www.suntimes.com/output/elect/cst-nws-lip01.html
I think it's the same article. Published Friday.
O/S's are incoming to skerry soon....hehehehehe...and the RATS are monitoring FR 24/7 to see if they can get a hint of what they are!!!! Man...there is so much he's tried to coverup during his 20yrs as a senator on himself. It will impossible for them to figure out just which ones are incoming!!! ;o)
Boy, one would think that someone who focus's on the military of thirty some years past in a campaign would put ALL question to rest with form 180.
After all, JFK has nothing to hide but his humility, right?
BTTT!!!!!!
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JOHN KERRY = Enemy of Vietnam Vets
http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1320
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Holy mackerel. This is a KILLER STORY! Kerry ran away at the first sign of combat, went back when he thought it was safe, and then made up a story to send in about his own heroism, inventing all sorts of dangers that never happened.
If it can be proved that he was alone on the boat that sent in the report, his goose is cooked.
Yes, yes, I know. The MSM will ignore this story just as they have ignored the testimony of more than 150 Vietnam veterans. But I do believe it can be gotten out.
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