Posted on 08/17/2004 11:19:24 PM PDT by FairOpinion
Questions continue to appear faster than answers these days about John Kerry’s ever-changing four months as a swift boat captain in Viet Nam.
The latest scuffle involves a cast of characters including the Reverend David Alston, Fred Short, Captain Ted Peck, and, of course, John Kerry.
David Alston stood before the crowd and recalled the many harrowing experiences he had shared with his good friend and former captain, John Kerry.
The history of PCF-94 is interesting. The skipper prior to John Kerry was a man named Ted Peck. Captain Peck and David Alston were both injured on January 29, 1969, and airlifted out for medical care.
On January 30, 1969, John Kerry took command of PCF-94. A man named Fred Short took David Alston’s place on Kerry’s new boat. Fred Short clearly remembers the day he joined Kerry’s crew because it was his birthday, February 18, 1969. Short remained on PCF-94 until March 4 and stated that Alston returned to the boat a ''couple of days later.'' John Kerry left PCF-94 after receiving his third purple heart just after March 13, 1969. Those dates are part of the official record showing Alston served a total of one week, maximum, under John Kerry’s command.
According to Kerry’s own written reports, he had no missions from March 1 to March 10. From March 10 to the time he wrote his last report on March 13, he wrote reports for four missions. The missions of March 10 and 11 reveal no enemy contact.
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Thanks for finding the article.
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You were the one who first brought it up at FR, seems like others are picking it up.
Great job!
I think the SS Kerry boat is taking on water...
Kerry the "Dream Weaver" has spun so many yarns he'll never get himself untangled.
Ping. Good article.
Posted on John Kerry’s official website was this description of Kerry’s recollection of when Alston was wounded. Reported by the Boston Globe the following report was quickly removed after it became obvious that it was a total fabrication. "The campaign summarize[d] action that took place on Jan. 29, 1969, this way: 'While Kerry's boat and another (PCF-72) were probing a canal along the river, Kerry's boat came under heavy fire and was hit by a B-40 rocket in the cabin area. One member of Kerry's crew Forward Gunner David Alston suffered shrapnel wounds in his head....' '' The campaign website also listed two other incidents that took place prior to January 29 as having occurred under Kerry's leadership.
Ted Peck was not thrilled to read about John Kerry taking credit for missions that Kerry never participated in--on a boat he didn’t take command of until January 30, 1969. The Kerry website has now removed all of the military documentation it once bragged endlessly about being proud to post. John Kerry’s ''band of brothers'' has been gagged by the boss and may only give interviews after Kerry has approved them.
Other statements made by David Alston:
''We were in a lot of firefights. You learn a lot about people. After a firefight, John would come up to me and he would put his hand on me and he'd say, 'David, are you all right?’ I stand here before you only because almighty God saw our boat safely through those rivers of death and destruction, by giving us a brave, wise, and decisive leader named John Kerry.''
''I can still see him now, standing in the doorway of the pilothouse, firing his M-16, shouting orders through the smoke and chaos. Even wounded, or confronting sights no man should ever have to see, he never lost his cool.''
I just lost my dinner, though.
Good work!
Ya but rags like the LA TIMES did stories today for the first time and it was all protect Kerry at any cost....!
That's the same way the NY Times will handle it if they ever write about it.
Of course to be fair and balanced since Kerry only served about 16 weeks in Viet Nam, 1 week is about one sixteenth or 6.25% of the time Kerry there? :-)
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Oh my my ... looks like this one is starting to pick up legs too
FYI ping to you also
He was so specific when writing his book -- how does he explain this additional discrepancy?
I read it. As these lies begin to unravel, I hope the truth gets out to those that have bought into this BS, hook, line and sinker. Sure hope it get gets heavy enough that the slimey MSM can't avoid reporting it.
An of course NOW the whole truth is seeping out because Brinkley's official biography of the weird one has him wrting in his diary that he had yet to be under enemy fire ....some nine days AFTER his so called first purple heart.
Be sure to see the rebuttal if you already haven't at: Rebuttal
Update: More confirmation that Alston never returned to duty.
Thanks.
No, I haven't seen that.
"He was so specific when writing his book -- how does he explain this additional discrepancy?"
Everyone knows that Buddhists celebrate Christmas in January.
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