Swift boat memories

[Gunit_Sangh]

Well, well well ... seems like Rassmann wasn't the only one pulled out of the river under fire ... it seems like Thurlow was also.

Just saw this on Josh Marchall's talkingpointsmemo.com



Eagle Point vet who was there backs Kerry’s assertion that bullets were flying the day he won two medals on a river in Vietnam

By PAUL FATTIG
Mail Tribune

Robert E. Lambert doesn’t plan to vote for John Kerry.

But the Eagle Point man challenges claims by a group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that there was no enemy fire aimed at the five swift boats, including the one commanded by Kerry, on March 13, 1969 on the Bay Hap River in the southern tip of what was then South Vietnam.

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"They took what everybody said after they got in, piled it altogether and shipped it off and somebody wrote that, either at the division level, squadron level or commander of naval forces, Vietnam level," Lambert said. "They decided what kind of medal was going to be put on it.

"Mine was for pulling Lt. Thurlow out of the river while we were under fire," he said.


Rest of the story ...

http://www.mailtribune.com/archive/2004/0826/local/stories/01local.htm

[tandot]

1. Thank you...Thank you...Thank you...

These SmearVets thought they could slime a fellow Vietnam veteran and nobody would speak out against them.

I think someone should sue/prosecute those lying scumbags for libel, perjury, and whatever else they can be sued or prosecuted for.

[skip fox]

2. All this and much more collected in DU's Editorial section under

Swift-Boat-Veterans-for-the-Truth-GATE: The File:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x70032


Please send links to stories on SBVT like the above to me and I'll add to file. (I'll be useful for everyone.)

[Career Prole]

3. Good catch! Thanks much! n/t