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jim howley · Seaman Recruit Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 3

I feel privileged to have seen your press conference and hope a band of brothers ...true leaders and patriots then and now....will succeed, and that the TRUTH alone will cause the end of Kerry.

Navy_Navy_Navy · Admin Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 5777

You can view the excellent press conference of the Swift Boats Veterans for Truth at the c-span site: http://www.c-span.org/Search/basic.asp?ResultStart=1&ResultCount=10&BasicQueryText=swift

You will need Real Player to view the streaming video, but it's worth the trouble to download and install the program just to see this press conference.

Some of us are damned mad that not only did this group not get the appropriate level of airing that it deserved, a couple of news outlets actually turned it into hit pieces on the group, itself. Tell me our media isn't partisan!

I am glad to say that I was able to see one of the c-span airings and I was very proud of each one of you! You served your country well in our military and you are stepping up to the plate once again. BZ's!!!!!

It was clear that some of you are not used to speaking in public, but each one of you was very eloquent in your own way. I was moved to tears at a couple of points in the presentation, but I was cheering for each of you!

I've watched the news conference via the internet several times and I still can't get through it without tears, but I've still recommended it to everyone I knew.

Don't be discouraged - the truth WILL come out!
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~ Echo Juliet ~
Altering course to starboard - On Fire, Keep Clear
Navy woman, Navy wife, Navy mother

Spirit · Seaman Recruit Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 8

If you can't play the C-Span file, I've placed an audio file of the conference at:

http://www.spiritoftruth.org/swiftvets/swiftvets.wma

As for my opinion, see:

http://www.spiritoftruth.org/swiftvets.htm
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God bless,

J. Adams

"It is a fact that in the entire Vietnam War we did not lose one major battle. We lost the war at home and at home John Kerry was the field general."

- Bob Elder, Swift Boat Veteran For Truth

Navy_Navy_Navy · Admin Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 5777

Thank you J. Adams for making that available!

I especially like the quote that you have at the top of the page. I literally jumped up and cheered at these words,

"It is a fact that in the entire Vietnam War we did not lose one major battle.
We lost the war at home and at home John Kerry was the field general."
- Bob Elder

YES!!!!!!
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~ Echo Juliet ~
Altering course to starboard - On Fire, Keep Clear
Navy woman, Navy wife, Navy mother

Spirit · Seaman Recruit Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 8

You're welcome!

And thank you Swift Vets for fighting for America and for taking a stand now when your opinions are so very important.
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God bless,

J. Adams

"It is a fact that in the entire Vietnam War we did not lose one major battle. We lost the war at home and at home John Kerry was the field general."

- Bob Elder, Swift Boat Veteran For Truth

Decom Reject

Here's some interesting facts about "Rather be surrendering..."

From the book Stolen Valor:

"Rather certainly has experience with the military. During the Korean War, when men could be drafted out of college, Dan Irvin Rather joined the Army Reserves while attending Sam Houston University in Huntsville, Texas, thus avoiding the possibility of being drafted. On graduating in 1954, well after the Korean War was over and the killing had ended, Rather quit the reserves and enlisted in the Marine Corps. (This is the same national broadcaster who, night after night during the 1988 presidential campaign, hammered Republican vice presidential candidate Dan Quayle for avoiding Vietnam by joining the National Guard.) Although the press often refers to Rather as an " ex-Marine," he did not finish Marine recruit training. He joined the Marines on January 22, 1954, but was discharged less than four months later, on May 11, for being medically unfit. (As a boy, Rather had suffered from rheumatic fever.)"

The above paragraph is footnoted: Military record of Dan Irvin Rather, National Personnel Records Center, FOIA request by B.G. Burkett, August 23, 1990.

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sparky · Former Member Joined: 06 May 2004 Posts: 546

Oh, so that's it! Kerry was a Soviet dupe. This reminds me of similar claims that Clinton was under control of the Soviets and would open up our skies, borders and ports to the Kremlin.

Protesting the war in Vietnam, even as radical as some of the returning vets were, was not scripted by the Soviets no matter how often you say it. It was our own screw-up they were responding to. Rather than acknowledge the US's own error, you blame the protesters through the Soviets.

Ironically, if anyone was scripting the anti-war movement, it was the FBI with its plants and infiltrators who exhorted the protesters to commit violent acts as revealed later by the Church Commission.