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To: i-node who wrote (198491)	8/26/2004 1:08:20 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577591

>> What constitutes "borderline" injuries to you? One which required treatment with the Vietnam-era equivalent of Neosporin. I am not an MD but I think shrapnel in the arm and leg requires a little more than neosporin. Why do you keep telling half truths? BTW what kind of injuries did Bush get.......paper cuts?

To: i-node who wrote (198491)	8/26/2004 8:32:41 AM
From: Alighieri	Respond to of 1577591

Two vets say Swift Boat group misrepresents them Those credentials have been questioned by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, whose Web site shows a photo of Kerry with 19 officers from his division. The group said only one man in the picture, Skip Barker, supports Kerry. Rich McCann and Rich Baker are among four listed as “neutral.” But McCann, 60, a consultant from Chagrin Falls, Ohio, said he told the group he was neutral about whether it used his picture. “I was never neutral about (Kerry) as president,” he said. “If the question is whether John Kerry is fit to be commander in chief, my answer is absolutely.” Baker, 61, now a baker by trade, says he was never contacted by the group, perhaps because he recently moved to Pittsburgh. Kerry is “very well fit for command,” he said. “He was one of the most courageous and aggressive swift boat captains in the division.” Both men say they voted for Bush in 2000 but won’t again. Neither accompanied Kerry on the missions that led to his two awards for valor and three Purple Hearts for injuries. Both said the men criticizing Kerry could have spoken up 35 years ago. Officers usually debriefed one another after missions before one of them, usually the senior tactical officer, wrote the official after-action report, they said. The group’s claim that Kerry made up reports of enemy fire during a March 1969 mission when Kerry pulled a Green Beret from a river and won the Bronze Star doesn’t make sense to McCann and Baker. “The other officers would have had the opportunity to say at the debriefing, ‘No, John, we weren’t under fire,’ “ Baker said. Members of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth have said they were unaware until years later that Kerry had written about the incident. Jim Russell, 60, of Telluride, Colo., was an eyewitness on a boat behind Kerry’s. In a conference call arranged by the Kerry campaign, he said accusers “couldn’t have seen if he was under fire” because Kerry’s boat was in an ambush zone farther down the river. Russell also said those who say Kerry’s injuries were too minor to merit the Purple Heart don’t understand that Navy regulations required all wounds be reported and treated. “If it got infected, you could be court-martialed for not getting it treated,” he said. navytimes.com