Larry Thurlow
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Category: Swift Boat controversy
One of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
April 13, 2004
From "John Kerry's Vietnam" by Andrea Stone in USA Today:
"John was a master at looking out for John," says Larry Thurlow, a fellow boat commander. "John has never been bashful about saying, 'Man, I'm a war hero.'"
Yet, except for one crewmate, even those who felt betrayed by Kerry for later leading Vietnam Veterans Against the War and who call themselves Bush supporters acknowledge that he showed courage under fire. "He was extremely brave, and I wouldn't argue that point," Thurlow says.
. . . [A] few other Vietnam veterans have spread stories - some of which Thurlow admits are "hearsay" - on conservative Web sites.
July 25, 2004
From "Vietnam etched Kerry's outlook" by Bill Lambrecht in St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
[On Kerry's Bronze Star,] Gardner and Larry Thurlow, who commanded the last of several Swift boats in the flotilla, said they recalled no gunfire from shore after the mine was struck.
"It's a cock-and-bull story of the highest order," said Thurlow, of Bogue, Kan.
"I've kept my mouth shut for years," he said. "As long as he was just the big-time war hero from Boston, I could laugh about it. But I can't laugh anymore."
August 5, 2004
From "Vietnam Veterans Buy Ads to Attack Kerry" by JODI WILGOREN in The New York Times:
When the chips were down, you could not count on John Kerry, one of the veterans, Larry Thurlow, says in the 60-second advertisement, scheduled to begin running today in scattered markets in Ohio, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
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