Three Navy men won Bronze Stars for their actions that day: Kerry,
Thurlow, and radarman first class Robert Eugene Lambert, a petty
officer in the boat captained by Thurlow. The citation for Lambert's
Bronze Star--previously undisclosed but obtained today under the
Freedom of Information Act from the National Personnel Records Center
in St. Louis--repeats the description of the incident included in the
citation for Thurlow's Bronze Star: "all units came under small arms
and automatic weapons fire from the river banks." Lambert's citation
also notes that Lambert--who assumed command of PCF-51 after Thurlow
went to assist another Swift boat damaged by a mine--"directed
accurate suppressing fire at the enemy." The citation praises
Lambert's "coolness, professionalism and courage under fire."

In an affidavit Thurlow signed last month, he said "no return fire
occurred....I never heard a shot." He said to the Post, "I am here to
state that we weren't under fire." But the individual citations for
Thurlow, Kerry and Lambert each refer to enemy fire. And the Lambert
citation also suggests there was a need for his boat to engage in
"suppressing fire."


http://www.thenation.com/capitalgame...bid=3&pid=1692

That's *three* oficial documents contradicting Larry Thurlow's
prevarications. Three strikes - he's OUT!


--
// Walt
//
// There is no Volkl Conspiracy

Dave,

Are you saying that the other COs let and accepted Kerry's false
reports? Didn't they even read the reports? I can't understand how they
didn't do anything about the reports at the time, is they knew they were
phony?

OT

Thom Stewart wrote:
Dave,

Are you saying that the other COs let and accepted Kerry's false
reports? Didn't they even read the reports? I can't understand how they
didn't do anything about the reports at the time, is they knew they were
phony?

What I can't understand is why his CO wrote & signed his evaluations,
saying what they said; and that others further up the chain of command
approved them.

Oh wait, I know how to explain that too... Kerry obviously wrote his own
evals, just like he wrote all the post action reports!

Kerry was probably writing *EVERYTHING* bad about the Viet Nam war,
including the news read by Walter Cronkite every evening! What a busy
man he must have been!

DSK