This might be the most telling testimony about <$Ad$>the Rassman incident.
Robert E. Lambert, was on Larry Thurlow’s boat — Thurlow’s Kerry’s chief accuser about this particular incident. He himself got a Bronze Star for, among other things, pulling Thurlow out of the water that day.
Lambert says he found Kerry’s post-war anti-war activism “reprehensible.”
“That was absolutely reprehensible but, there again, Iâm career military” he told the local paper.
But on the key point …
Lambert, now 64, was a crew member on swift boat PCF-51 that day. The boat was commanded by Navy Lt. Larry Thurlow, a now-retired officer who questions why Kerry was awarded a Bronze star for bravery and a third Purple Heart for the March 13 incident.
“He and another officer now say we werenât under fire at that time,” Lambert said Wednesday afternoon. “Well, I sure was under the impression we were.”
Lambertâs Bronze Star medal citation for the incident praises his courage under fire in the aftermath of a mine explosion that rocked another swift boat on that day 35 years ago.
“Anytime you are blown out of the water like that, they always follow that up with small arms fire,” he said.
Lambert also sheds some light on the idea that Kerry somehow doctored the after-action report. Read this one.
