Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a non-partisan group representing more than 300-hundred swift boat veterans who served with senator John Kerry in Vietnam, has announced the launch of an advertising campaign which it says answers the Senator�s call for truth.  Swift boat veterans Shelton White:

"Well, it was actually the TV ad that got the press interested.  For 35 years the press hasn�t been interested in our story and with this television ad now they�re starting to pay attention."

Although the group includes most of the men who were on the missions in which Kerry received his medals, one criticism often heard is they weren�t actually on his boat.  Van Odell:

"Decided we were not on his boat is not to understand swift boats and they don�t, these were very small boats, we�d run along each other, we�d could talk to each other from one to another. Just to think to say that we didn�t serve with John Kerry cause we weren�t on his boat is like saying that Captain Benteen and Captain Reno could not talk about the Battle of Little Big Horn or didn�t serve with George Armstrong Custer because they all weren�t on the same horse."

For more information, go to swiftvets-dot-com.

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