http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20040914/ap_on_el_pr/bushAURORA, Colo. - President Bush is honoring the sacrifice of National Guardsmen in Iraq and Afghanistan, noting their special role in the war on terror, and saying he also is proud of his own Vietnam-era stint as a citizen soldier.
Bush was not expected to address the controversy swirling around unexplained gaps in his service in the Texas Air National Guard in his address Tuesday ....
The Democratic National Committee was releasing a nearly three-minute video accusing Bush of using family connections to get into the Guard and out of the Vietnam War.
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Documents disclosed last week suggest Bush ignored a direct order from a superior officer to take a physical exam and lost his status as a Texas Air National Guard pilot in the 1970s because he failed to meet military performance standards and did not get the physical.
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On Monday, first lady Laura Bush said she thought the documents were probably fakes. "You know, they probably are altered and they probably are forgeries, and I think that's terrible, really," she told Radio Iowa in an interview.
The White House said Bush did not take the physical because he was not going to be in a flying capacity with an Alabama National Guard unit where he transferred so he could work on a political campaign.
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Hours before Bush addresses the convention, members of Military Families Speak Out, a nearly 2-year-old group representing 1,700 military families, were to tell stories about relatives who have served in Iraq or have been killed in the conflict. At a news conference in a hotel next to the convention center where Bush was speaking, the relatives were expected to accuse the Bush administration of betraying National Guard soldiers who signed up to serve at home, but were sent overseas for extended periods of time to fight a "war based on lies."
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They have no shame.
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