Local vet recalls time on Kerry's swiftboat

[joefree1]

Local vet recalls time on Kerry's swiftboat

San Leandro resident Mike Medeiros served with the candidate in Navy, defends honors

By Alex Katz, STAFF WRITER

OAKLAND -- On the last day of February 1969, rifle-toting Mike Medeiros found himself running through the Vietnamese jungle, following a young Lt. John Kerry, who was chasing a teenage Viet Cong soldier armed with a grenade launcher.

It was a fairly typical day for Medeiros, a San Leandro native who served for seven intense and bloody weeks on a Navy swiftboat commanded by the-then 25-year-old Kerry, now the Democratic candidate for president.

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Medeiros is on active duty in the U.S. Army as a staff sergeant -- he's helping to train National Guard units on their way to Iraq at Ft. Bliss, Texas -- and cannot directly endorse any candidates.

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Medeiros describes Kerry in Vietnam as daring and highly competent, and said recent allegations by a group of Vietnam veterans who question Kerry's record are "totally false."
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http://www.trivalleyherald.com/Stories/0,1413,86~10671~2334602,00.html

Great article. Very positive about Kerry. Hard not to post more then three paragraphs of this. It should go into some type of databank to rebuke the liars.


Images of the Bush Protest in Santa Monica, August 12, 2004
http://www.ediablo.com/BushProtest8-12-04.html

[JohnKleeb]

1. Of course Mike is for Kerry though he cant say it

Guy sounds like a class act. He's right about Admiral Hoffman too.

[joefree1]

5. You mean this quote?

"Retired Rear Adm. Roy Hoffman, chairman of the anti-Kerry group, "sat in a nice, fairly safe rear echelon area (during the war) and hardly ever left it," Medeiros said. "He's kind of a pugnacious little guy. He was very gung ho, but he never got a chance to do anything."

[Sporadicus]

2. Outstanding!

Now, if we could only get Mike Medeiros' story picked up by the mainstream media...

[Democat]

3. Too bad the national media doesn't give him free around the clock coverage

Like they do for every liar claiming to be a vet that is on the Bush payroll.

[joefree1]

4. But they can't stop e-mail

And I'm sending the article to everyone I know.