William Rood, an editor for the Chicago Trib,
served alongside Kerry the day that they stormed the riverbank and chased down the VC firing upon them, and breaks his 30 year silence on the subject to contest the Swiftvets for Revenge, whose allegations he says are both untrue, and are placing doubt on everyone who served there.
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There were three swift boats on the river that day in Vietnam more than 35 years ago--three officers and 15 crew members. Only two of those officers remain to talk about what happened on February 28, 1969.
One is John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate who won a Silver Star for what happened on that date. I am the other.
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Among other things, Rood's account determines that the VC Kerry chased down and killed was a grown man, not "teenager in a loincloth," that Kerry's decision to turn on the bank was not impulsive but discussed beforehand with all three skippers of the boats, and that Rear Adm. Hoffman (who has since been very critical of the Kerry campaign) said at one point in a congratulatory message that the tactic of charging the ambushes was a "shining example of completely overwhelming the enemy" and that it "may be the most efficacious method of dealing with small numbers of ambushers."
Of course, Rood is a journalist for a major newspaper, and is undoubtedly biased. Fucking liberal.
