In the letter to the editor section of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, 8/24/04
As a swift boat veteran who served with John Kerry in the rivers of Vietnam, I find the so-called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth to be anything but truthful.
If you want to know the real truth about this group, follow the money. The group is financed and directed by the same people who used dirty tricks to defeat Sen. John McCain in 2000.
I know from firsthand experience that Kerry is a courageous and honorable man. When you are in firefights in the Mekong Delta, you need to have complete confidence in the person guarding your back. I said it in 1969, and I'll say it again today: There is no one that I would rather have guarding my back in a war zone than John Kerry.
Richard M. McCann