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  • CREW MEMBER QUESTIONED KERRY'S SILVER STAR IN 1996

    08/11/2004 9:02:07 AM PDT · by areafiftyone · 82 replies · 2,671+ views
    Newsmax ^ | 8/11/04
    A Swiftboat veteran who was a member of Sen. John Kerry's crew when their boat was targeted in Feb. 1969 by an enemy rocket launcher has refuted Kerry's claim that he single-handedly saved his crew from the attack - an account that earned the top Democrat the Silver Star. Interviewed during Kerry's 1996 Senate reelection battle, Kerry crew member Tom Bellodeau told the Boston Globe that he - not Kerry - fired the shot the brought down the enemy fighter, who had aimed a loaded rocket launcher at their boat just after Kerry beached it on the Ca Mau peninsula....
  • Kerry Defender Rood Contradicted by Crewmate

    08/21/2004 7:19:23 PM PDT · by Carl/NewsMax · 125 replies · 4,919+ views
    NewsMax.com ^ | Aug. 21, 2004 | Carl Limbacher
    In a development that the establishment press is treating like bombshell news, former Swiftboat commander William B. Rood has stepped forward to defend John Kerry against the charge that he exaggerated his valor during the Vietnam War in descriptions of a foiled Feb. 1969 ambush on his boat. But unmentioned in coverage of Rood's story so far is one salient fact: His account is sharply contradicted by one of Kerry's own crewmates, who complained eight years ago that Kerry took credit for bravery he didn't deserve - in an action that earned him the Silver Star. In Sunday editions of...