Good article to pass around in email!
Pitkin's words carry ten times the punch as the SwiftBoat Vets, good as theirs is. Unfortunately, it's not enough to expand into a book. I don't know if Pitkin and SBVs ever met, but it might have been a good thing to include testimony like Pitkin's into UNFIT FOR COMMAND---kind of as an antidote to The New Soldier/Winter Soldier books from 30-some years earlier.