Vo Thi Vi, 54, said Feb. 28, 1969, is a day that the villagers of Nha Vi hamlet will never forget. “Everything was destroyed,” she said. “There’s no houses left. They leveled everything. There was no leaves left. The fighting was very fierce.”
That account is disputed by Swift boat veteran John O’Neill, author of “Unfit for Command,” who maintains in his book that the statement “is simply false. There was little or no fire.”
They are talking about the day that John Kerry won the Silver Star.
So, months after they could have done this, Nightline went to the village where Kerry won a Silver Star in a firefight. But some other yanks had been there first:
“They say he didn’t do anything to deserve the medal,” Nguyen said. “The other day, they came and asked me the questions and I said that the recognition for the medal is up to the U.S.A.”
So the “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth” struck out in their final mission of the Vietnam war: to bribe some dirt pool rural village folks to lie. No wonder they look so pissed in their new whining, self-pitying commercial.
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