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[Frogg]

One Of Kerry’s Band Of Brothers – Joe Bangert
August 25th, 2004

When John Kerry gave his victory speech the night of the New Hampshire primary, he said he was indebted to a specific group around him on stage.
"In the hardest moments of the past month, I depended on the same band of brothers I depended on more than 30 years ago," said Kerry, with his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, beside him. "We're a little older now, a little grayer, but we still know how to fight for our country.
"And if I am president, I pledge that those who wore the uniform of the United States of America will have a voice and a champion in the Oval Office."

A few feet away, wearing the Marine Corps cap he has owned since serving in Vietnam, stood Brewster resident Joseph Bangert - one of the proverbial boys in the band.

Kerry and Joe Bangert embraced. Then Bangert stood between Teresa Heinz Kerry and her victorious husband basking in the victory. A victory his work as a Kerry veterans organizer had helped to achieve.
Bangert and Kerry had first met thirty four years before in 1970, in Detroit, during the Vietnam Veterans Against The War’s “Winter Soldier Investigation,” a project funded by Jane Fonda and the conspiracy theorist Mark Lane.

Inspired by the then recent news reports of the My Lai massacre, the WSI’s organizers sought to prove that such war crimes were committed by US troops on an almost daily basis.

However, many of the participants were subsequently revealed to have been frauds. Many had not ever seen combat. Many had not ever been to Vietnam. Some had not even served in the military.

Joe Bangert was one of the WSI’s star participants. His testimony along with many of the others at the event, was entered into the Congressional Record on April 6, 1971.

Rest of article can be read at:
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=3782

[hanna]

That is the most disgusting thin I have ever read!

[rb325th]

Thanks for the Story! Shows a little more of Kerrys Credibility! Guess he kind of sort of regrets having said what he did, even though he stands behind his words despite the fact they were not his own words, or were they
Kerry takes the cake for his ability to totaly cloud where he truely stands!
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[baldeagl]

My first thought is, did this guy actually serve in Vietnam? So many of the VVAW did not, that I wouldn't believe a word he said until he produced the documents to prove he served in the Marines and he was stationed in Nam at the time he said he was, doing the things he says he was doing.

I guess I'm going to have to buy Stolen Valor as well.
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[ASPB]

You can believe he was on stage hugging Kerry, though. This is a very old story in the veterans community. So far we've been unable to get traction with the press on it. You might want to take a run at it in your blog.
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[Jette]

John Kerry maintains close ties with his V V A W Komrades - David Thorne, former brother-in-law and Editor of "The New Soldier" is Kerry's campaign Adviser. John Hurley, whose fabricated stories of atrocities, documented in "Unfit for Command" (pp.178-180) heads up Veterans for Kerry.

Don't think for a minute that Kerry has abandoned his anti-war mentality or his anti-war Komrades.

[baldeagl]

Here's some info on Mr. Bangert from the Winter Soldier investigation

[kman]

Just sickening.

[stealthy]

This is big and deserves legs of it's own. Everyone should know about this guy.
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