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[depotoo]

why couldn't these letters be sent to the media? could this possibly help? maybe to the ones that are a little more conservative since I feel they might be more apt to do something about it.
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[minnie presley]

I feel we need to get all those comments and letters out to msm and demand they read them on the shows, linda vester on fox would do it she is always asking for good news from iraq, also I am sure hannity would do it on H&C, also scarborough would do it, this info needs to reach the gullible public out there

[Kwik K]

Somone posted that my post Dear America should also be moved here. I have had this letter verified to be correct. I am thinking about taking a full page add out in our once/a week local newspaper and would like to publish some of these letters. What do I need to do this. And could people please verify these letters posted here. I see some have links and all. Would I need to contact each of the authors,or just go ahead and print em?

Does swiftvets have any adds premade to newspaper format and would the newspaper allow me publish such a thing?

[Navy_Navy_Navy]

Most of these letters were intended to be broadcast via emails, blogs and web sites.

The Swifts do indeed, have a print ad in circulation - if it's cheap enough for you to get it printed in your local paper, feel free to do that.

http://swift3.he.net/~swift3/answers.pdf

I've printed out a ton, along with my own essays - in booklet form, rolled up, they fit neatly into the space between the doorknob and doorjamb.
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~ Echo Juliet ~
Altering course to starboard - On Fire, Keep Clear
Navy woman, Navy wife, Navy mother

[Kwik K]

would a newspaper allow me to print any of these letters?

[Ohio Voter]

Any chance of getting some good rebuttal to this MSNBC web story stating that troops are questioning their mission. The operative word in the story is "some" troops, but it is being spun online in discussion as wide spread troop doubts question their mission.

For Marines, Iraq a frustrating fight
Some soldiers question how and why war is being waged

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6214573/

[Kwik K]

[TEWSPilot]

I thought you might enjoy this. It isn't often one gets to meet a true hero face to face. He caught me a bit off guard when he thanked me for my service in Vietnam. Most people did just the opposite.

I just got home last night from attending the funeral of my wife's uncle in Oklahoma and a visit to my mother in Texas. My mother has terminal lymphoma and is resting peacefully at home with Hospice caring for her. While I was in Madill, Oklahoma, where my mother-in-law lives, I managed to pull a muscle in my back and went to the emergency room. That morning she had told us about one of their local doctors who has made several trips to Iraq and was just back from his last one. She had a newspaper cliping where the doctor had written a letter to the editor in the Madill Record dated Thursday, September 23 telling about his work in Iraq. During a trip in May, while enroute to meet some Special Forces troops and set up another clinic for Iraqi civilians, his convoy was the target of a roadside bomb. One of his medics, Sgt. Jeff Shaver of Washington state, was killed and some of the civilians in the convoy were injured, some killed, and he received shrapnel in his back that broke a rib. He went to visit the fallen soldier's family after he got back. The doctor's name is Pete Chambers, and he was wearing his "Iraqi Freedom" T-shirt under his scrubs and had a purple heart on his camo ball cap. I believe he said he is in the National Guard. His wife is also a doctor. He had the nurse give me a shot, and he prescribed some pain medicine and a muscle relaxer. We had a nice visit. He told me he had another patient who was a Swift Boater, and I think he meant that he was there at the same time I was because he kept leaving and going to see someone else while they observed me to make sure the meds didn't have an adverse effect on me. Unfortunately, I failed to get the Swift Boater's name -- wasn't thinking too clearly at the time. Regardless of how anyone feels about the war, Dr. Pete Chambers and the rest of them are heores, and I hope they get the respect and praise they deserve.

If the Swift Boater who was there being treated by Dr. Pete Chambers reads this, maybe you could add some more about him. If this man is an example of the fine men and women we are sending to represent us and defeat the terrorists, we can all be extremely proud to be represented by such heroes.
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[Tobette]

I just sent in a letter from a soldier in Iraq to my local paper asking them to print it and some others now and then. It's the least we can do to get their message out. I'm pretty confident that the public would appreciate it.

[Navy_Navy_Navy]

More good news from Iraq, posted by one of our members:
http://www2.swiftvets.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=12117
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~ Echo Juliet ~
Altering course to starboard - On Fire, Keep Clear
Navy woman, Navy wife, Navy mother

[ArmyMedicsMom]

I hope this link works....From our Soldiers to you...The good things that are happening in Iraq that the MSM won't tell you about....Allawi gave a the lowdown in his speech to Congress, but MSM glossed over that too.

http://www.loveourtroops.us/whatloveourtroops.htm

[Curtis H.]

[coldwarvet]

My journey with the swift vets

5/21/04 I met up with my Navy recruit son on his first liberty after boot camp and his two brothers at Six Flags Great America Gurnee, IL. Strangers came up and thanked him for his service, we went to UNO’s for pizza and they gave him a military discount, we played mini golf and my son received another military discount. It was such a relief to see the shift in public opinion from my 1975-1979 service. Suddenly it all crashed when one of his brothers told me that during another liberty on 5/30/04 while visiting the Chicago loop a hippie type on a bicycle waived his middle finger at my uniformed son. Then the memory of my personal public mistreatment while in my Air Force uniform popped into my mind. And then I became consumed with all the stories of public mistreatments that were shared with me as we patrolled the 90th MSS missile wing. I remember how the honorable men I served with rarely talked about Vietnam however they had no loss of words when it came to Hanoi John & Jane. I also remembered security briefings that included potential threats from the VVAW.

I GOOGLED VVAW in my search to discover roots of how Americans came to the place were they hate their own military. I was flabbergasted to discover that Hanoi John was actually John Kerry we perceived as a threat during the cold war. And the ideal that he could actually become my sons CIC, well it just can’t happen John Kerry should be in prison not President of the United States of America. Well after that discovery it only took me a few minutes to stumble into the Swift Boat Veterans for truth.

And to any one out their that wrongfully depicts our troops better duck and cover because for me and any others that would like to join in we will hunt you down take you into court and sue you for libel. Your lies will become public record and we will take as much money from you as we can get to go after the next zero who spews lies about our men and women who are protecting our freedoms. We need to reclaim the libel laws in such a time as this and it is my opinion we go after Michael Moore first. We can not effectually fight the war on terror while people like Michael Moore undermine the troops and public opinion with treasonous trash. We stood by in 1971 while Kerry spewed his lies and look what it has brought us today. If Moore goes unchallenged in the courts sends the wrong message that it is ok in America to package a pile of lies and market it as a documentary. If this goes unchallenged the value of all future documentaries will be diminished. If Moore goes unchallenged he and others like him will continue to wrongfully depict our troop’s one libelous documentary after the next.

We must seize this moment to end the cycle of libelous depictions of our troops.

CWV
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