June 1, 2008 -- Swift Vets and POWs for Truth has formally disbanded and ceased all operations as of May 31, 2008. SwiftVets.com will continue to be maintained for historical purposes only by New American Media Online Services (NAMOS).

December 13, 2006 -- Swift Vets and POWs for Truth has reached an agreement with the Federal Election Commission regarding the FEC's allegation that our organization and others should have registered as political committees in 2004. See our press release for information on the terms of the settlement.

November 30, 2004 -- Migrated the site to a single server, consolidating all pages, TV ads, mini-documentaries and forums in one place. Old links starting with "swift*.he.net" no longer work, but all previous content is still available.

November 3, 2004 -- Statement by Admiral Roy Hoffmann, founder of Swift Vets and POWs for Truth

November 1, 2004 -- More evidence accrues that John Kerry's initial discharge from the Navy was less than honorable, and a source confirms that his discharge status kept him from being admitted to the Harvard Law School. No comment from the Kerry campaign -- and no denial. See Kerry's Discharge Is Questioned by an Ex-JAG Officer by Thomas Lipscomb in the New York Sun.

Update: Former Secretary of the Navy William Middendorf urges Kerry to release his Naval records and defends the character of Mark Sullivan, the former JAG officer cited in the NY Sun story above. Mr. Middendorf notes that the Privacy Act prevents him from commenting specifically on the status of Kerry's discharge. See Ex-Navy sec to Kerry: Open up your records by Art Moore at WorldNetDaily.

October 30, 2004 -- Now available in video or DVD: Unfit to Lead...Vietnam to Iraq: the truth about John Kerry, hosted by John O'Neill. Preview a one-minute trailer here.

John O'Neill debated John Hurley of "Vietnam Vets for Kerry" earlier this week, with Paul Schiffer mediating. Audio of the program is now available at the Schiffer Report web site.

Recommended reading: Kerry's Legacy, by former POW Paul Galanti.

October 29, 2004 -- Recommended reading: Kerry's Military Discharge. What's Kerry Hiding?, by Lt. Col. Robert "Buzz" Patterson, and Post Mortem, Jeff Carrington's devastating reply to a recent op-ed by Washington Post executive editor Leonard Downie Jr. claiming that the paper is free from partisan bias. We suspect that the Post will decline to print Mr. Carrington's letter, in an impartial sort of way...

October 28, 2004 -- Don't miss our five new mini-documentaries, now available via streaming video at SwiftVetsandPOWs.com.

New press releases:

Swift Vets and POWs blast Kerry campaign for censorship tactics

Swift Vets and POWs make Stolen Honor available free to the general public

October 27, 2004 -- America's most highly decorated living veteran, Col. George "Bud" Day was in Iowa yesterday, where he referred to John Kerry as "the Benedict Arnold of 1971." The legendary aviator and former POW appeared in our final two TV commercials, Why? and They Served.

October 26, 2004 -- The complete POW documentary film Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal can now be downloaded directly from StolenHonor.com by both broadband and dialup viewers.

Researchers working with Swift Vets and POWs for Truth have uncovered archived documents captured during the Vietnam War that link John Kerry and Vietnam Veterans Against the War to communist propaganda planners via the Paris Peace talks. See Hanoi Approved of Role Played By Anti-War Vets, by Thomas Lipscomb of the New York Sun, and John Kerry and the VVAW: Hanoi's American Puppets? by Dr. Jerome Corsi and Scott Swett at WinterSoldier.com.

October 24, 2004 -- Recommended reading: Never Apologize, Never Explain, by Joshua Muravchik, and Kerry's Vietnam ghosts won't go away, by Robert J. Caldwell.

October 22, 2004 -- Recommended reading: The Speech John O'Neill Wasn't Allowed to Give, by Max Friedman.

Read the rebuttal to John Kerry's Senate testimony that Congress and the media suppressed.

October 20, 2004 -- Recommended reading: ABC News or ABC spin, by Thomas Sowell.

Recommended viewing: The Simple Truth / To Our Parents, by Vietnam Vets for the Truth.

October 19, 2004 -- Advantage Swift Vets, a new online-only epilogue to John O'Neill and Jerome Corsi's #1 best-seller Unfit for Command, is available for free from Human Events Online. The new chapter covers recent developments, including the reaction of the Kerry campaign / mainstream media to our charges. It also asks some rather pointed questions of John Kerry. We think the American public deserves some straight answers.

October 15, 2004 -- John O'Neill appeared on "Nightline" with Ted Koppel last night to discuss John Kerry's controversial 4-month tour in Vietnam. Mr. Koppel's performance was a stark reminder that much old-line news reporting is more about advancing a political agenda than uncovering the truth.

John O'Neill has issued a statement regarding the interview.

October 13, 2004 -- It appears increasingly likely that John Kerry was given less than an honorable discharge by the U.S. Navy. In Mystery Surrounds Kerry's Navy Discharge, reporter Thomas Lipscomb notes that Kerry's discharge required a review by a board of officers, which suggests that he may have been involuntarily separated from the service. Of course, Senator Kerry could clear all this up by signing a Standard Form 180 to authorize the complete release of his military records...

Action Alert: After trying unsuccessfully to block the publication of "Unfit for Command," John Kerry's supporters are now working to prevent Sinclair Broadcasting Group from airing the POW documentary film Stolen Honor on its 62 nationwide affiliates later this month. Here's how you can help.

Just released: They Served and Why?, our eighth and ninth TV ads.

October 11, 2004 -- More than 80 Swift Vets and former POWs met over the weekend in Washington to film our final television ad. Don't touch that dial...

Recommended reading: Injured, angry, determined, Swiftees unite to fight Kerry, by Stephanie Mansfield in the Washington Times, Sinclair Stations to Air Anti-Kerry Documentary, by Paul Farhi in the Washington Post, and PC man vocal as Swift boat vet, featuring Swift Vet Steve Gardner, John Kerry's gunner in Vietnam.

October 8, 2004 -- Recommended reading: John Kerry's secret meeting with the enemy, by Dr. Jerry Corsi.

October 7, 2004 -- Our new print ad raises several questions that John Kerry has avoided addressing. We think America's military personnel and veterans deserve some answers.

Note: this is a 626K pdf format file.

October 6, 2004 -- A chronological list of posts analyzing our efforts and the response from the Kerry campaign and the media is available at BeldarBlog.

October 4, 2004 -- Blogger Dean Esmay has published an excellent interview with Swift vet Van Odell, and TimesWatch.org analyzes the grotesquely biased coverage of the N.Y. Times in Double Standard: Times Tars Swift Boat Vets, Plugs False "Bush AWOL" Story.

October 1, 2004 -- Recommended reading: Swift boat vets' stories hold up under fire, by Admiral Hoffmann, and John Kerry and the politics of betrayal, by Dr. Jerry Corsi.

Also, don't miss New Document Indicates Kerry Wrote Disputed Vietnam Report, by Thomas Lipscomb, which provides new evidence that John Kerry wrote the after-action report covering the incident for which he received the Bronze Star. Lipscomb points out that Kerry was "the principal beneficiary of its glowing references to his performance" and notes that the report "completely leaves out how Kerry's own boat, PCF 94, ran downriver, leaving James Rassman overboard and the other three boats to deal with the ambush and the sinking PCF 3."

September 30, 2004 -- Released Never Forget, our seventh TV ad.

We've also added a new Petition Block.

Sign here to ask John Kerry to explain his claim that American troops in Vietnam committed war crimes routinely and as a matter of policy, and to respond to our many, well-documented charges that he has misrepresented his own service in Vietnam.

September 29, 2004 -- Swift Boat Veterans for Truth has joined forces with a group of American prisoners of war who were held captive in Vietnam to form a new organization: Swift Vets and POWS for Truth. See our new press release for details.

September 23, 2004 -- Recommended reading: Dan Rather: Fairly unbalanced, by Ann Coulter, and Ask the 'Dominoes' about Kerry's Atrocities Charge, by Michael P. Tremoglie.

September 22, 2004 -- Added a rare and interesting debate between Van Odell and Kerry supporter Del Sandusky on Lynn Breidenbach's "Florida Talks" radio show to our TV Ads and Videos topic. The Kerry campaign avoids head-to-head matchups between Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and members of Kerry's own diminutive "Band of Brothers," and after hearing this you'll understand why. Dialup users warning: the audio file is rather large (21MB).

September 21, 2004 -- Released Friends, our sixth TV ad, and posted the related press release: New Swift Boat Veterans for Truth TV Ad: Kerry Secretly Met with Enemy Leaders While America Was at War.

Added a Swift Vets Screensaver topic. Our new Swift Boat Veterans for Truth screensaver plays one or more of our TV commercials in full-motion video.

Two more recommended articles: The Mysteries of John Kerry's War Record, by John Hinderaker, Scott Johnson & Edward Morrissey, and “Seared in My Memory”, by Mackubin Thomas Owens.

September 19, 2004 -- Recommended reading: The Grand Deception: 'Kerry, War Hero,' Is a Myth, by Admiral Roy Hoffmann.

September 17, 2004 -- Released Dazed and Confused, our fifth TV ad.

C-SPAN has made available streaming video of the Kerry Lied Rally [RealPlayer only].

September 13, 2004 -- Here's an overview of contributions made to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth as of Friday, September 10. More than 50,000 individual contributions have arrived, coming in from all 50 states. Thanks to everyone who is helping us continue to deliver our message.

We have also published a Fact Sheet to counter the misinformation about our efforts to date that has been circulating in the media.

September 5, 2004 -- Added a new Links block to list a few interesting web sites.

August 31, 2004 -- Released Medals, our fourth TV ad.

Sent an open letter to John Kerry, Senator Kerry: Tell the Truth and We'll Stop the Ads

August 28, 2004 -- Recommended reading: FrontPage Magazine's in-depth interview with John O'Neill.

Also recommended, from the Weekly Standard: Fahrenheit 1971 and The Not-So-Swift Mainstream Media

August 27, 2004 -- Released Gunner, our third TV ad.

August 24, 2004 -- New press release:

Kerry Campaign Backtracks On First Purple Heart Award

August 23, 2004 -- Added the cover letter provided to TV station managers documenting the statements made in the "Sell Out" advertisement.

Modified the "after" photos in the Swift Officers Photo topic and on the home page to reflect the decision of formerly neutral Swift officers Rich McCann and Rich Baker to support John Kerry.

August 22, 2004 -- Added a new Topic section to house our growing collection of TV Ads and Videos.

August 21, 2004 -- New press release:

Swift Boat Veterans for Truth Disavow Florida Political Flyer

August 20, 2004 -- Released Sellout, our second TV ad, and posted the related press release:

SwiftVets Launch Second Phase of Advertising Campaign

August 19, 2004 -- Posted Swift Veteran statements in response to today's Washington Post article by Michael Dobbs, Records Counter a Critic of Kerry. Dobbs attempts to make a case that there was enemy small-arms fire during the Rassmann incident for which John Kerry obtained a Bronze Star, based on the writeup for Larry Thurlow's own Bronze Star. But who wrote the action report for the event? And why no bullet holes in any of the boats?

Statement By Swift Boat Veterans for Truth member Larry Thurlow

Statement By Swift Boat Veterans for Truth member Van Odell

Statement By Swift Boat Veterans for Truth member Jack Chenoweth

Statement By Swift Boat Veterans for Truth member John O'Neill

August 18, 2004 -- Added new press releases:

Kerry Crew Member and Supporter Does Not “Recall” Senator In Cambodia

Swift Boat Veterans for Truth Respond to MoveOn PAC’s Ad Campaign

August 16, 2004 -- New York Post: Anti-Kerry Ad a Hit.

August 10, 2004 -- Added a new section called John Kerry's Christmas in Cambodia to the John Kerry in Vietnam topic. What a tangled web we weave...

Don't miss the new article Legal Terrorism. Henry Mark Holzer and Erika Holzer dissect the effort by Democratic National Committee attorneys to intimidate television stations into refusing to run our "Any Questions?" ad.

August 8, 2004 -- Added the cover letter provided to TV station managers documenting the statements made in the "Any Questions?" advertisement.

August 6, 2004 -- Added a Letter to TV Station Managers Re Captain Elliott and Captain Elliott's updated affidavit to the press releases section.

Added an official response to Senator John McCain's remarks about "Any Questions?" from Admiral Roy Hoffmann.

August 5, 2004 -- Moved site to new dedicated servers to support greatly increased bandwidth requirements following the launch of "Any Questions?"

August 4, 2004 -- Added our first TV ad, Any Questions? to the start page.

August 1, 2004 -- Updated Coastal Division 11 officer images on our home page and Swift Officers Photo page to correctly portray Swift veteran Ralph Dobson as opposing Kerry.

Addressed the question "So who were those guys at the Democratic Convention with Senator Kerry, anyway?" in our Frequently Asked Questions section.

Started a list of past Swift veteran appearances.

July 24, 2004 -- Added a new Appearances block that links to a list of Swift vet appearances on the air.

July 22, 2004 -- Welcome to the new SwiftVets.com. We hope you'll find our site informative and easy to use.

The Topics block at the left is divided into three sections:

The top section contains the home page and our latest news updates, some quotes and video clips from our initial press conference on May 4, our analysis of a photograph of Swift officers used by the Kerry campaign, and a frequently asked questions (FAQ) page.

The second section covers events in the Vietnam era, starting with a comparison of John Kerry's claims regarding his medals, fitness reports and various events to what we actually witnessed. It also documents Kerry's false charges of widespread American war crimes, the transcript of a famous 1971 debate between Kerry and fellow Swift veteran John O'Neill, and provides a look at one Swift boat's visit to a Vietnamese village.

The third section lists our press releases, our letters to John Kerry and the Kerry campaign, and selected articles and interviews. It also provides information about our organization and officers, and describes how we protect the privacy of guests, subscribers and contributors.

The Discussion Forums block provides access to our interesting and occasionally turbulent Swift Veterans Forums. Click the link to read them or to register as a poster.

The Newsletter block allows you to sign up for periodic updates on our activities and events. Enter your email address in the space provided and click "Subscribe." We will not give your email address to anyone else -- see our Privacy Policy for more details.

The Contact Us block provides clickable links you can use to email us regarding various topics:

Latch@SwiftVets.com is for questions and feedback directed to the leadership of our organization,
Admin@SwiftVets.com is for questions and feedback about the web site itself, and
Media@SwiftVets.com can be used for media inquiries or to schedule speakers and events.