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Aug 21, 2004 131 Replies
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For Immediate Release



Friday, August 20, 2004



SwiftVets Launch Second Phase of Advertising Campaign



New Round of Television Ads Debuts in Selected Markets


August 20, 2004 - Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a non-partisan group representing more than 250 Swift Boat veterans who served with Senator John Kerry in Vietnam, announced the second phase of a grassroots and paid media campaign to tell the truth about John Kerry?s military service record and his treatment of fellow Vietnam veterans when he returned home from his brief tour of duty.



This phase centers on a new commercial, available for viewing at SwiftVets.com.



The latest Swift Boat ad focuses on Kerry?s verbal attacks on many of his shipmates by featuring actual testimony from Kerry to the US Senate in 1971 and the reaction from his former Vietnam War comrades.



"When John Kerry returned to this country after his highly abbreviated tour of duty in Vietnam, he disgraced his uniform, he insulted his shipmates and fellow veterans and he greatly aided the enemy's ability to torture and humiliate American prisoners of war," said Admiral Roy Hoffmann, founder and chairman of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. "What John Kerry did made Jane Fonda look like a Red Cross volunteer. It was terribly demoralizing,? he continued.



?American POWs and veterans felt betrayed by Senator Kerry?s remarks about the soldiers serving in Vietnam,? said John O?Neill, author of Unfit for Command. ?Many veterans have contacted us and are coalescing for this campaign,? he continued.



One of the veterans featured in the ad is Mr. Paul Galanti who served as chairman of the John McCain campaign in Virginia and was active in the organization ?Veterans for Mark Warner,? Virginia?s current Democratic Governor.



The advertising buy will be more than $600,000 and the spots will be broadcast in three states where Kerry has touted his military service. Ads will start running on television stations on Tuesday of next week.



Media is asked to direct queries to snipped-for-privacy@swiftvets.com. Send feedback for Swift veterans to snipped-for-privacy@swiftvets.com, and web site questions to snipped-for-privacy@swiftvets.com.



Thank you for your interest in Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.



Sincerely, Thomas C. Wyld



SwiftVets Communications


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[snip stuff that has f*ck-all to do with Jeeps]

My little town closes down Main Street and runs a street fair on the third Thursday of each summer month. This last time I was button holed by 4 religious proselytizers and by 4 political proselytizers. It was like being swarmed by rats, big, smiling rats with leaflets.

Ya know, I loathed being subjected to it there and I don't need it here, either.

FOAD.

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I know how you feel, being surrounded by traitors in my own country like Hanoi Jane. God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O mailto: snipped-for-privacy@aol.com

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Matt, you're a reasonable guy... I can't think of any organization that supports any candidate or is against any candidate that doesn't have some form of financial backing. Do you? Money doesn't come from nowhere. ;)

Jerry

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What do you know about aluminium slotted wheels offered as factory equipment on 1970s CJs? I was offered a set of 5 yesterday at $40 a pop, said to be in excellent condition and originally made by American Racing.

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L.W. (ßill) Hughes III did pass the time by typing:

bumper mounted wench?

(ducks and runs)

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Let us be honest and direct. John Kerry is a self-confessed war criminal who has attempted to smear all Viet Nam veterans with his stinking brush.

The SBVT members have all served honorably and with distinction. If they cannot speak to disassociate themselves from the war criminal, then our election laws are broken.

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L.W.(ßill) Hughes III proclaimed:

Or liars like folks who claim to have served with someone who never even met him.... or draft dodgers or worse AWOL national guardsman whose military records mysteriously and conveniently vanish.

If you were there, you have a right to state your opinions.

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L.W.(ßill) Hughes III proclaimed:

No, it isn't that hard to believe. But at least he had the balls to serve rather than go AWOL from the draft dodgers.

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Matt Osborn proclaimed:

Oddly enough, I don't smell any stink...are you claiming to be a veteran or are you another draft dodger?

They *could* note that none of them ever knew the person they claim to have served with.

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L.W.(ßill) Hughes III proclaimed:

I tend not to care about the words of AWOL draft dodgers. Or yours, if you must know the truth.

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L.W.(ßill) Hughes III proclaimed:

No, just those who also failed to show up for drills...technically known as AWOL unless your daddy has connections.

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