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 Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 5:34 pm Post subject: "Military compatriots challenge Kerry’s war claims" |
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BZ Charley Plumly!...Mike Solhaug!...Roy Hoffmann!...Bill Collins!...and Ms. Kimberlin as well!
| Quote: | Military compatriots challenge Kerry’s war claims
By JOANNE KIMBERLIN
The Virginian-Pilot
July 27, 2004
NORFOLK — Charley Plumly served in Vietnam with John Kerry.
He didn’t like him then. He likes him less now.
So little, in fact, that the retired Navy captain from Virginia Beach is opening old wounds in the hopes of blocking Kerry’s path to the White House.
Plumly, 73, has helped form Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Headquartered in Alexandria but spread across the country, the group’s 250 members, now silver-capped with age, fought the war from the same high-speed, heavily armed river boats as Kerry in the late 1960s.
According to the group, about 3,700 men operated the gunboats, threading through Vietnam’s steamy maze of waterways, choking off enemy movement and supplies.
Some of those who served with Kerry have spoken out in support of the Democratic presidential candidate.
Others, like Plumly, say they are fed up with Kerry using his months “in country” as a campaign centerpiece.
“We were there,” Plumly said. “We know what happened. And it wasn’t like he says it was.
The Virginian Pilot |
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