Chicago Tribune Editor Refutes SBVT (Updated Posting)
Reported by Marie Therese - August 22, 2004 -
Original post: Saturday August 21, 11:00 am EDT (Updated Sunday 8/22/04 3:45 PM EDT)
CHICAGO, Aug. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- "There were three Swift Boats on the river that day in Vietnam more than 35 years ago -- three officers and 15 crew members. Only two of those officers remain to talk about what happened on February 28, 1969."
"'One is John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate who won a Silver Star for what happened on that date. I am the other.' So begins William Rood's compelling account of events that happened more than 35 years ago. The article appears in the Sunday, August 22 edition of the Chicago Tribune."
Rood, now night city editor for the Chicago Tribune, earned a Bronze Star for his part in the operation. Rood has chosen to break more than three decades of silence in defense of the men who served alongside him." (end of excerpt)
Read the story at This is what I saw that day.
