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Quote Omer
(only one and ya have a whole book to choose from), of an inacurate fact in the well documented book? Thanks Mr Tree! JR
Dont want to read your book Omer, and i,m surprised that your are relying on a book seeing as you like to deal in facts. You want one, I will give you the Swift Boat lie about the Bronze star incident OK? I,m sure,you will come back and say that you don't believe it, but here it is any way.
Let s look into the allegation that Kerry received the Bronze Star under false pretenses. That is contradicted by Jim Rassmann, he was the man that Kerry rescued that day.
Here is what the Swift Boat lie,s put out
{Van O'Dell, a former Navy enlisted man who says he was the gunner on another Swift Boat, states in his affidavit that he was "a few yards away" from Kerry's boat on March 13, 1969 when Kerry pulled Rassman from the water. According to the official medal citations, Kerry's boat was under enemy fire at the time, and Kerry had been wounded when an enemy mine exploded near his own boat. O'Dell insists "there was no fire" at the time, adding: "I did not hear any shots, nor did any hostile fire hit any boats" other than his own, PCF-3.}
{Others in the ad back up that account. Jack Chenoweth, who was a Lieutenant (junior grade) commanding PCF-3, said Kerry's boat "fled the scene" after a mine blast disabled PCF-3, and returned only later "when it was apparent that there was no return fire." And Larry Thurlow, who says he commanded a third Swift Boat that day, says "Kerry fled while we stayed to fight," and returned only later "after no return fire occurred."}
Larry Thurlow
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http://www.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Thurlow Citation.pdf
Here is what Larry Thurlow,s bronze star citation reads (see link)
It says that "all units began receiving enemy small arms and automatic weapons fire from the river banks"after the first explosion. The citation describes Thurlow as leaping aboard the damaged PCF-3 and rendering aid "while still under enemy fire," and adds: "His actions and courage in the face of enemy fire . . . were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service."
This is what Thurlow later said
The Post quoted Thurlow as saying he had lost his citation years earlier and had been under the impression that he received the award for aiding the damaged boat and its crew, and that his own award would be "fraudulent" if based on his facing enemy fire. The Post reported that, after hearing the citation read to him, Thurlow said: "It's like a Hollywood presentation here, which wasn't the case. . . My personal feeling was always that I got the award for coming to the rescue of the boat that was mined. This casts doubt on anybody's awards. It is sickening and disgusting. . . .
I am here to state that we weren't under fire."
So now tell me who is lying?
Jim Rassmann, the man that Kerry plucked out of the drink ,and says that Kerry Save his life while Kerry himself was wounded.
Quote Rassmann
<,John, already wounded by the explosion that threw me off his boat, came out onto the bow, exposing himself to the fire directed at us from the jungle, and pulled me aboard.>>
Or a man that states that he cant remember what would be most probably the most traumatic part of his life.
And states that his own award would be fraudulent if based on his facing enemy fire.
Here is another witness to the actions of Kerry
On Aug. 22 the Washington Post quoted a new eyewitness in support of Kerry's version. The Post said it had independently contacted Wayne D. Langhofer, who manned a machine gun aboard PCF-43, the boat directly behind Kerry's, and that Langhofer said he distinctly remembered the "clack, clack, clack" of enemy AK-47 assault rifles.
Langhofer: There was a lot of firing going on, and it came from both sides of the river.
http://www.factcheck.org/article231.html
