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Your Day of Reckoning

You’ve read what happened on April 4, 1997. You’ve read what was covered up. You’ve read what Captain Patrick Barnes carried for twenty-nine years — in his own widow’s words — and what I have carried for those same twenty-nine years.

The record has been waiting for a day of reckoning. You said yes.

Here’s what comes next.

Step 1 — Find Your Senators and Representative

The men and women who hold institutional accountability for the United States military are your two senators and your House representative. They work for you. They answer your mail. They count your calls.

Find them. It takes thirty seconds.

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Step 2 — What to Say

The strongest framing is not “give Jack Daly a medal.” It is “tell the United States Navy and the United States government to answer for twenty-nine years of institutional silence.”

Here are the specific demands. Use whichever ones move you. Pick one. Pick five. Write your own.

1. The DoD Inspector General finding.

In August 2003 the Department of Defense Inspector General found sufficient basis for the Secretary of the Navy to consider me for the Purple Heart, and recommended the Navy resolve what it called the acknowledged uncertainty over whether an act by a hostile foreign force caused my eye injuries.

The Navy did not resolve it. It answered: "Even assuming that the injuries were indeed caused by a laser that came from the Russian-flagged merchant vessel Kapitan Man, there is no basis to declare the ship a hostile force or the incident a terrorist attack."

The IG told the Navy to resolve it. The Navy refused.

2. The cover-up of the attack itself.

The Russian directed-energy attack against U.S. and Canadian aircrews in U.S. airspace on April 4, 1997 was documented at the time and then buried. Demand that the United States government issue a public accounting of what happened, who knew, and who ordered the silence.

3. The doctored photograph.

Kodak’s forensic analysis documented more than seventy Photoshop manipulations of the Office of Naval Intelligence image released to support the official narrative. Dr. Russell Kraus testified to these manipulations under oath. Demand to know who ordered the alterations to the official intelligence record.

4. The medical record of two men.

Captain Patrick Barnes (Royal Canadian Air Force) died on April 15, 2026, still suffering the laser injury he sustained on April 4, 1997. His widow’s witness account is on the public record. Jack Daly carries the same injury, on the same triggers, for the same twenty-nine years. Demand institutional acknowledgment of the medical evidence in the eyes of two men.

5. Congressional oversight.

The DoD IG’s finding stands. The Navy refuses to act on it. Demand that the Senate Armed Services Committee and the House Armed Services Committee open an inquiry into why an Inspector General determination has been ignored for twenty-nine years.

Step 3 — A Letter You Can Adapt

Most senators and representatives accept constituent contact through their official websites. The form on their site will ask for your name, address (to verify you’re a constituent), and your message. Paste this letter, add your own details, and hit send.

Official Template

Subject: Since 1997 institutional silence — please act

Dear Senator [Name] (or Representative [Name]):

I am a constituent in [city, state]. I am writing because I have just finished reading Blind Treason by Jack Daly, a retired U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander and Naval Intelligence officer. The book documents an April 4, 1997 directed-energy attack by a Russian merchant vessel against a U.S.–Canadian surveillance helicopter in U.S. airspace, the injuries sustained by two of the crew, the documented forensic evidence of intelligence-image manipulation, and the institutional silence that has held for nearly thirty years.

In August 2003 the Department of Defense Inspector General found sufficient basis for the Secretary of the Navy to consider him for the Purple Heart. The Navy refused.

I am asking you to use your office to demand the following:

  1. A written explanation from the United States Navy of why the Inspector General's recommendation was never resolved, and on what basis the award was refused;
  2. A public accounting from the United States government of the April 4, 1997 incident and its cover-up;
  3. Congressional oversight, through the Senate Armed Services Committee or the House Armed Services Committee, of why this matter has been allowed to remain unaddressed for nearly three decades.

Captain Barnes is gone. LCDR Daly is still here, still carrying the wound. The record is open. The silence is not acceptable.

I appreciate your service and your attention to this matter. I would welcome a response.

Respectfully,

[Your name]

[City, state]

[Date]

Step 4 — Add Your Voice to the Roll

If you’ve contacted your senators or representative about Blind Treason, add your name. This isn’t a petition — it’s a record. Twenty-nine years of silence have been kept by institutions counting on individuals to stay quiet. The roll is the opposite of that.

Step 5 — Tell One Other Person

The most effective amplifier of one constituent voice is two constituent voices. Tell one person about Blind Treason — a friend, family member, fellow veteran, anyone you trust to read it and act.

Thank you for adding your voice. The record is not what it was when you started reading.