These memos are unassailably damning evidence both of Bush's failure to fulfill his National Guard committments and of his years of lying about it.
Don't try to digest them from the long newspaper spoon. Here are links to the documents themselves:
May 4, 1972
May 19, 1972
August 1, 1972
August 18, 1973
And here are the URLs if you feel like copying and pasting them in an email, for example, to encourage your local press to print reproductions. To encourage fairness and balance, maybe they should also print reproductions from Kerry's military record.
www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/BushGuardmay4.pdf
www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/BushGuardmay19.pdf
www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/BushGuardaugust1.pdf
www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/BushGuardaugust18.pdf