John Kerry served on these boats in the Mekong Delta & a group of their "Veterans for Truth" opposed him in '04
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Sen. John Kerry Defends Vietnam War Record | PBS NewsHour  Aug 19, 2004 ... John Kerry, D-Mass., strongly defended his Vietnam war record against allegations by a group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that accused Kerry of ... while commanding a swift boat in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam. ... John Kerry is lying about his first Purple Heart because I treated him for that injury.
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Swift Boat Accounts Incomplete (washingtonpost.com)  Aug 22, 2004 ... Members of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth have challenged several aspects of ... SOURCES: "Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War" by ... Many Swift boat veterans opposed to Kerry acknowledge that their disgust with him was ... to use them to block Vietcong supply routes through the Mekong Delta.
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Swift Boat Vets for Truth: Fact or Fiction - Democratic Underground  "Ties to Gannon can be traced via the Swift Boat Vets Web site . ... veteran who first met Franke when they served together in the Mekong Delta. ... John E. O'Neill to attack Kerry, he also formed an entire group around him called ... John Kerry's heroic war record is 'Swift Boat Veterans for Truth', which today...
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Swift Vets and POWs for Truth - Wikipedia  Swift Vets and POWs for Truth, formerly known as the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (SBVT), was a political group (527 group) of ... (See John Kerry military service controversy.) ... These claims caused tremendous controversy during the election, .... O'Neill served on the Swift boats after Kerry left Vietnam, and Corsi never...
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Swift Boat Post by pollyusa in Diary Form - Daily Kos  Wednesday Aug 04, 2004  7:50 AM PDT ... Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (3.91 / 36) ... All but Steve Gardner support John Kerry and stood with him as he made his ... Alston is from Columbia, SC and served in Vietnam in the Navy as a Gunners Mate ... "Kerry commanded a Navy `Swift Boat' that patrolled the Mekong delta.
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How Gaylord Nelson Almost Stopped the Vietnam War | The ...  Aug 7, 2014 ... What really happened in the Gulf of Tonkin in August 1964 remains murky 50 ... President Johnson went on television to say he had ordered ... The American response would be limited and fitting, he declared. We still seek no wider war. ... and Nelson told Fulbright he wanted to introduce the amendment.
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In the Company of Heroes by Mark Shields | Creators Syndicate  Aug 6, 2016 ... During his own 6 1/2 years in that same Hanoi hellhole, Marine pilot Orson ... during the Vietnam War, in the brutal custody of his Hanoi jailers. ... in the Hanoi Hilton and who was running for president, Sen. ... As John McCain struggles to win re-election in Arizona to his sixth Senate term, fate has cruelly...
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Only Two Senators Opposed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution  May 24, 2013 ... In 1964, only two Senators opposed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution that ... Backgroundwise, Oregon's Wayne Morse and Alaska's Ernest Gruening would seem like the ... In 1952, that didn't impact the make-up of the Senate and Morse lost ... When Morse came up for re-election two years later, Hatfield clearly...
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The Vice President: Gore Tells Fellow Veterans He Is Dedicated to ...  Aug 23, 2000 ... Mr. Gore, who served as an Army journalist in Vietnam for five ... the Vietnam War, said in his address to the veterans that "the current ... refusing to take responsibility for the military's condition during the Clinton presidency.
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Full text of "spartans_in_darkness-nsa" - Internet Archive  3 August 194 (U) Round Two: Everything in Doubt" - The 4 August Action 195 ... for Uncle Ho: Foreign Communist Pilots During the Vietnam War, 1964-1972 261 ... The Vietnam War has been the subject of countless memoirs, histories, and ...... a moving tar- get could hit anything 88 The sonar operator aboard the Maddox...
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Wayne Morse and the Vietnam War | WAYNE MORSE CENTER ...  Senator Morse was staunchly opposed to communism, even approving the use of ... Ernest Gruening of Alaska in voting against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
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Wayne Morse - Wikipedia  In 1964, Morse, who had won re-election in 1962, was one of only two United States senators to vote against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (Alaska's Ernest Gruening was the other), which authorized an ... His central contention was that the resolution violated Article One of the United...
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The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 50 Years Ago - History in the Headlines  Aug 1, 2014 ... On August 2, 1964, the U.S. destroyer Maddox exchanged shots with North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin. Two days later, the Maddox and another destroyer reported once again coming under fire.
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution - Wikipedia  Main article: Gulf of Tonkin incident ... the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin on August 2, 1964, ... Hanoi subsequently insisted that it had not launched a second attack. ... It also learned that the U.S. Naval Communication ... Vietnam called the Studies and Operations Group.
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Who served? - AWOLBush.com  Representative Phil Hare, D-IL - Served in the United States Army Reserve for six years. ... Former Vice President Al Gore - enlisted August 1969; sent to Vietnam January 1971 as an army journalist, assigned to the 20th Engineer ... Vietnam (1, 2); Senator Daniel Inouye, US Army 1943-'47; Medal of Honor, World War Two...
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John Kerry - Wikipedia  John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American diplomat and Democratic Party ... Kerry returned to the Senate, becoming Chairman of the Senate Committee on .... In March 1965, as the Vietnam War escalated, he won the Ten Eyck prize as the best ... On February 18, 1966, Kerry enlisted in the Naval Reserve.
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The History Place - Vietnam War 1965-1968  October 16, 1965 - Anti-war rallies occur in 40 American cities and in international ... October 19, 1965 - North Vietnamese Army troops attack the U.S. Special Forces camp at .... July 30, 1966 - For the first time, the U.S. bombs NVA troops in the ..... March 12, 1968 - By a very slim margin of just 300 votes, President Johnson...
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John McCain - Wikipedia  Senator McCain became a member of the Armed Services ... chaired by fellow Vietnam War veteran and Democrat, John Kerry, ... to determine the fate of U.S. service personnel listed as missing in...
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Remarks With Students at the University of Chicago's Institute of ...  3 days ago ... He's been a public servant all his life, from the time that he served in the ... medals including the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and three Purple Hearts. After returning to the United States, Secretary Kerry joined Vietnam Veterans Against the ... He won the primary and moved towards the general election on a...
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A Friendship That Ended the War - The New Yorker  Oct 21, 1996 ... The name given it by Americans was the Hanoi Hilton. ... six years, from October of 1967, when he was shot down, until March of 1973. ... Standing with McCain at Hoa Lo brought Kerry face to face with the ... Across the boundaries of ideology, the men have formed a potent .... In turn, John Kerry killed him.
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North Vietnamese torpedo boats attack US destroyer - Aug 02, 1964  North Vietnamese torpedo boats attack the destroyer USS Maddox (DD-731). The American ship had been cruising around the Tonkin Gulf monitoring radio and ... between USS Maddox and North Vietnamese torpedo boats on August 2, 1964...