I’ll be the first to admit that I haven’t done deep research on the swift boat controversy. That said, I tend to come down on the side of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. This story says the record contradicts Larry Thurlow’s account of the day Kerry (and Thurlow) won his bronze star. I’m suspending my judgement on those events until I can read more, but I would like to remind people that fabrications in the field were not uncommon during Vietnam. From kill counts to, yes, reports for awards, fabrications happened. Just because “the record” says one thing, it doesn’t automatically mean that the record was correct to begin with.
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