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Tonight was a great night. The Reagan Banquet was a great event. I was sitting at a table with Robin Burke, Adam Doverspike, and La Shawn Barber... This was truly a night to remember. Zell Miller was to present The Swift Boat Veterans For Truth with the Charlton Heston Courage Under Fire Award. Of course, the Swifties in attendance each received standing ovations when they were introduced. When Zell Miller spoke before the presentation of the award, he commended the Swifties efforts, and for having the courage to "call a lie a lie." There was a point when he speaking...

Zell Miller to speak..

Swift Boat Veterans pleased ad campaign paid off, says a local organizer of effort Its mission accomplished, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth has essentially dissolved. "I don't think there is any doubt that we succeeded," said retired Rear Adm. Roy F. Hoffmann, who helped start the organization from the den of his Chesterfield County home then saw it grow into a national movement. Like just about everyone else, Hoffmann said "I stayed up all night" watching the election returns that denied John Kerry the presidency. That was the organization's goal - to prevent Kerry from being "commander in chief," Hoffmann...

“Don’t make this [story] about meeting the Admiral,” the Admiral requested of me. Make it about the boat men and the great job they did. All the boat men. That’s what this thing is really about. “ And so my interview with the most gracious Admiral Roy Hoffmann, Founder of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, came to a close -- in the very same way it began -- with a porthole into the heart of a military man who, having attained such a high rank, has every reason to be proud, but who is, instead, humble to the core....

On Wednesday night, October 13, 2004, retired Navy Rear Admiral Roy Francis Hoffman - Founder of the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth -- phoned Freeper Aim Higher at home with a two thumbs up. Aim Higher had personally interviewed the Admiral on September 22nd. But before posting, Aim Higher got back with the Admiral by way of email, submitting the article to the Admiral for factual accuracy proofing and his stamp of approval. Admiral Hoffmann called Aim Higher last night to confirm accuracy of all facts stated, and give the Swiftee endorsement: “Go forward with it. I like it. You...

"T his is Latch." That's how Roy Hoffmann opened the calls, with a name he hadn't used in 35 years, a name the man at the other end of the line last heard crackling over a radio receiver in Vietnam. He called all the men who'd been under his command there, finding their names in old mimeographed records and photos once stored in his attic and now spread all over his second-floor office. "Latch, remember me?" he would say, transporting them back to those days on the Swift boats, the patrols in the Mekong Delta or even the middle of...

Not one hour ago, I posted my very first post on Free Republic: "Am I the ONLY One Who Noticed This at the Debates? I received many interesting comments, a few hysterical ones, several awfully kind "Welcome to Free Republic" comments (for which I'd like to thank you bloggers again)and finally.... I also received this one very rude comment: "You're really stretching. Is this the only reason you joined Free Republic. To post this?" So I answered this blogger by telling that they "inspired me to post again tonight." What I want to tell you, fellow FR bloggers, is why...

WASHINGTON - Almost overnight, it has become an article of faith among members of the mainstream media that the charges leveled against Sen. John Kerry by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth have been proven to be untrue. David Broder, the dean of Washington columnists, got into the act this week with a column that appeared in the Herald in which he dismissed the Swift Vets as a group peddling a scurrilous and largely inaccurate attack on the Vietnam service of John Kerry. How can the media discount Kerry's betrayal of all U.S. forces fighting in Vietnam, when he testified...

The widely repeated myth of "John Kerry, the Vietnam Navy Hero" is one of the most dishonorable and dangerous deceptions ever perpetrated upon the American public.John Kerry is not a hero. He built this facade with unabashed personal promotion, aided and abetted by a supportive liberal media ready and willing to repeat in print his gross exaggerations, distortions of fact, and outright lies about his abbreviated four-month, 12-day tour of duty in Vietnam.Until the Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth spoke up in press conferences, television ads, and with the now best-selling book, Unfit for Command, no one - not...

The widely repeated myth of "John Kerry, the Vietnam Navy Hero" is one of the most dishonorable and dangerous deceptions ever perpetrated upon the American public. John Kerry is not a hero. He built this facade with unabashed personal promotion, aided and abetted by a supportive liberal media ready and willing to repeat in print his gross exaggerations, distortions of fact, and outright lies about his abbreviated four-month, 12-day tour of duty in Vietnam. Until the Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth spoke up in press conferences, television ads, and with the now best-selling book, Unfit for Command, no one...

Anti-Kerry 'Swift Boat' Group Vows To Keep Up Ad Campaign AFP: 8/29/2004 WASHINGTON, Aug 29 (AFP) - The controversial group of veterans, whose television advertisements attacking Democratic White House hopeful John Kerry sparked a national debate, vowed Sunday to keep up their campaign until the November 2 election. Retired admiral Roy Hoffman, who founded the so-called "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth," told Time magazine that since their first, relatively small ad ran in three states earlier this month, the group had raised 2.5 million dollars from 37,183 donors. "We knew that we were going to stir the pot, but I...

The day before John Kerry wrapped up the Democratic nomination for the presidency, he tried to talk the leader of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, retired Navy Adm. Roy Hoffman, out of his now politically potent activism. It didn't work. Hoffman told FOX News that the call came on March 15. "I was somewhat flattered when he called me, but his mission was to get me to write down and submit what I thought was wrong in the [book] "Tour of Duty," his biography, where I thought there were mistakes," Hoffman said. Hoffman commanded all swift boats in Vietnam in...

Saturday, August 21, 2004 Thousands contribute to swiftboat vets Posted: August 21, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Les Kinsolving © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Was former Navy Seal officer and Medal of Honor recipient Bob Kerrey, the former U.S. senator from Nebraska, ever anywhere as near to John Kerry in Vietnam as 257 of Kerry's fellow officers and crewman of the swiftboats? All these navy veterans have signed a statement that Kerry is unfit for command. And that is the title of a new book written and extensively documented by Naval Academy graduate John O'Neill. This officer took over Kerry's swiftboat when Kerry returned home...

I know many people have seen this quote...but I believe it deserves a thread of its own that can be referenced, ping'ed, commented on, forwarded in emails, pointed to and referenced during the upcoming campaign. This quote was made at a press conference by Rear Admiral Roy Hoffman, USN (retired) who is the chairman of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, on May 4, 2004. "I do not believe John Kerry is fit to be Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces of the United States. This is not a political issue. It is a matter of his judgment, truthfulness, reliability, loyalty and...

Admiral Roy Hoffman, former commander of all Swift Boat operations in Vietnam, will appear on Hannity & Colmes tonight. He will discuss a film clip Fox News has found of John Kerry in Washington in 1971, presumably during the Dewey Canyon III protest, claiming that he had just spoken to a fellow vet who had a "pocket full of ears." As usual, Kerry provided no evidence to support this claim... John O'Neill, also of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, appeared on Major Garrett's show around 5pm Eastern to counter Kerry's slanderous remarks about his fellow Vietnam veterans.