rbshirley
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 Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 6:44 pm Post subject: Another Swift Boat Sailor heard from: Bob Hornberger |
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The following letter to the editor appeared in the Sunday,
August 8, 2004 editorial pages of the Augusta Chronicle.
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"Kerry's war tales are flat lies
John Kerry may snow the American people, but not me. I was with him in
An Thoi Vietnam, on Swift boats. I was with Ltjg. Mike Bernique on PCF 3,
and on PCF 43 with Ltjg Don Droz when he died; Don was Kerry's best
buddy.
Kerry lied about us deliberately killing women and children. It didn't happen
I was on that operation he won the Silver Star. I still don't know how he
got it. I never saw anyone run after they were hit with several .50-caliber
machine gun bullets, and that jungle garbage is phoney. We started up rivers
before Kerry got over there.
It seems like politics with these guys. I don't recognize some of the Swift boat
veterans he is pictured with in the news. I was told that most guys he served
with in An Thoi are against him.
Robert E. Hornberger
Grovetown [GA}
Editor's note:
The writer, a former Navy petty officer second class,
was a Swift boat gunner's mate during the Vietnam war.
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Bob Hornberger has been in poor health for the past several years.
For a description of the PCF-43 tragedy he refers to, visit the following:
....... http://pcf45.com/sealords/silvermace/silvermace.html .........
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