Kerry was Swift Boat Commander of Boat 44 and 94 - Photos from #94

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Kerry did 2 tours of duty - volunteered for both. Having received 3 purple hearts he was eligible for early out of the second tour, and was granted an early out.

In late January 1969, Kerry joined a five-man crew on swift boat No. 94 completing 18 missions over 48 days, almost all of them in the Mekong Delta.





Kerry and crew stand together in An Thoi, Vietnam, on February 28, 1969, after presentation of Kerry's Silver Star. He also received a Purple Heart. From left: Del Sandusky, John Kerry, Gene Thorson, Thomas Belodeau. Kneeling from left, Mike Medeiros, Fred Short.



On March 13, 1969, a mine detonated near Kerry's boat, wounding Kerry in the right arm. He was awarded his third Purple Heart.
PCF (Patrol Craft Fast) 94 crew in March 1969,

from left, Gene Thorson, David Alston, Thomas Belodeau, Del Sandusky, and John Kerry.

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1. So...let's see if ANY of these men who actually SERVED with Kerry show up

tomorrow for Nixon operative John O'Neill's press conference (lie-a-thon).

I wonder if anyone in the press will call O'Neill on his lies?

I wonder if they'll connect the three decades of rewards that O'Neill has received from his GOP oil industry clients in Texas?

Being part of the BFEE is very rewarding for the greedy and soulless.

[DerBeppo]

2. even if they do

will that change anything?

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3. The point was that the men who REALLY served with Kerry DO support him.

O'Neill lies when he implies that he and these other men served with Kerry and found him unfit.

O'Neill is a longtime, well rewarded GOP operative and shill.

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4. Well, one of the men who served under Kerry

campaigns full-time for him. As does the Green Beret, a lifelong Republican, whose life Kerry saved.

Those who know him best...