Swift Boat Veterans pleased ad campaign paid off, says a local organizer of effort Its mission accomplished, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth has essentially dissolved. "I don't think there is any doubt that we succeeded," said retired Rear Adm. Roy F. Hoffmann, who helped start the organization from the den of his Chesterfield County home then saw it grow into a national movement. Like just about everyone else, Hoffmann said "I stayed up all night" watching the election returns that denied John Kerry the presidency. That was the organization's goal - to prevent Kerry from being "commander in chief," Hoffmann...