Based on another thread, I investigated Ward Churchhill a little more and it led me to the POW network (they were referenced in the Dever Post). The POW network was cited as questioning Churchill's military training/background. I contacted them a couple of days ago, after reviewing their site and they told me that they were currently working on it and expected something in the next couple of weeks. The following email was forwarded to me today. It's a little confusing, nothing solid, but worth keeping an eye on (I'll post to this thread):
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>Date: 11 Feb 2005 21:35:12 -0000
>To:
info@pownetwork.org >Subject: Even worse then we thought
>From: Henry Mark Holzer - Newsletter <
newsletter@henrymarkholzer.com>
>
>My friends at POW Network tell me that the following information is
>correct. Note the irony: this anti-American scum wrapped himself in the
>flag when it suited him. Even though Erika Holzer and I wrote a book
>entitled FAKE WARRIORS: IDENTIFYING, EXPOSING AND PUNISHING THOSE WHO
>FALSIFY THEIR MILITARY SERVICE, our extensive research did not turn up
>many people who were at root profoundly against our Nation and for our
>enemies, while invoking military service and its implied patriotism to
>advance their personal goals. Long ago, as a Professor of Law at Brooklyn
>Law School, I was appointed by the Board of Trustees to prosecute a
>colleague in a de-tenuring proceeding, with the faculty sitting as jury.
>He was convicted, and thrown out. That is what must happen to Churchill.
>
>Tom Posey RVN 70-71 Email:
blueranger1@earthlink.net Comments: This one
>needs national exposure
http://www.850koa.com/shows/newman.html >Ward Churchill\'s Military Claims Proven False DENVER—An exhaustive
>investigation by Bob Newman of Newsradio 850 KOA (Denver), who is also a
>frequent guest military & terrorism analyst on the FOX News Channel and a
>Men\'s News Daily columnist, into the genuine Vietnam service record of
>radical University of Colorado Professor Ward Churchill, has revealed that
>Churchill’s claimed combat experience is in direct contradiction to his
>official military records. After a confidential source provided Mr. Newman
>with documents pertaining to Professor Churchill’s military service and
>his employment at the University of Colorado, Mr. Newman began an
>investigation into the documents’ authenticity. Using his own sources and
>calling upon the investigative skills of FOX News Channel’s Rita Cosby,
>Mr. Newman was able to verify that Professor Churchill, despite his public
>claim (in a 1987 Denver Post interview) of having been a paratrooper (!
>Airborne qualified) who conducted long-range reconnaissance patrols
>(LRRPs; extremely dangerous missions conducted by some of the most elite
>soldiers in the US Army) hunting North Vietnamese in Vietnam during and
>after the Tet Offensive of 1968, and despite his claim that he was a point
>man in an infantry combat unit, was in fact trained only as a jeep driver
>and projectionist (he was trained to operate film-strip machines and movie
>projectors), according to official documentation from the National
>Personnel Records Center, the US repository for military records. Denver
>attorneys Dan Caplis and Craig Silverman, both colleagues of Mr. Newman at
>Clear Channel Colorado, then acquired Professor Churchill’s original
>resume that resulted in his being hired by the University of Colorado.
>That resume matched exactly the resume Gunny Bob had acquired from his
>confidential source. On that resume, Professor Churchill cited no combat
>experience whatsoever, no Airborne training, no inf! antry training or
>experience and no winning of the Combat Infantry Bad ge. Instead, it said
>his experience in Vietnam consisted of his duties as a “Public Information
>Specialist,” as which he “wrote and edited the battalion newsletter and
>wrote news releases.” Verification of Professor Churchill’s real Vietnam
>service record was completed with the direct assistance of the National
>Personnel Records Center in St. Louis. Gunny Bob notes that in the same
>1987 Denver Post report, Professor Churchill admitted to being a
>bomb-building and weapons instructor for the Weather Underground, a
>domestic terrorist group active in the 1970s. Gunny Bob won a 2002
>National Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting on homeland
>security.
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The POW Network is the same association that investigated "Grandmaster Dr. Maung Gyi"
(
http://www.pownetwork.org/phonies/phonies38.htm)
They are a group that has done a lot of good to the martial arts community in the recent past (see Gyi above). . .
It will be interesting to see what they find as they continue to investigate Churchilll.
Jeff
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