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> "Crosslands" <npeters55@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> A previously unnoticed passage in John Kerry's approved war
biography,
>> citing his own journals, appears to contradict the senator's claim
he
>> won
>> his first Purple Heart as a result of an injury sustained under
enemy
>> fire.
>>
>> John Kerry receving medal for Vietnam service.
>> Kerry, who served as commander of a Navy swift boat, has insisted
he
>> was
>> wounded by enemy fire Dec. 2, 1968, when he and two other men took
a
>> smaller vessel, a Boston Whaler, on a patrol north of his base at
Cam
>> Ranh
>> Bay.
>> But Douglas Brinkley's "Tour of Duty," for which Kerry supplied
his
>> journals and letters, indicates that as Kerry set out on a
subsequent
>> mission, he had not yet been under enemy fire.
>> While the date of the four-day excursion on PCF-44 [Patrol Craft
>> Fast]
>> is
>> not specified, Brinkley notes it commenced when Kerry "had just
>> turned
>> 25,
>> on Dec. 11, 1968," which was nine days after the incident in which
he
>> claimed he had been wounded by enemy fire.
>> Brinkley recounts the outset of that mid-December journey, which
>> included
>> a crew of radarman James Wasser, engineman William Zaladonis,
>> gunner's
>> mate Stephen Gardner and boatswain's mates Drew Whitlow and
Stephen
>> Hatch:
>>
>> "They pulled away from the pier at Cat Lo with spirits high,
>> feeling
>> satisfied with the way things were going for them. They had no
lust
>> for
>> battle, but they also were were not afraid. Kerry wrote in his
>> notebook,
>> 'A cocky feeling of invincibility accompanied us up the Long Tau
>> ****pping channel because we hadn't been shot at yet, and
Americans
>> at
>> war who haven't been shot at are allowed to be cocky.'
>
> ROFL
>
> On THAT boat trip. This the best you swiftboater liars can do? lol
>
>
Want to silence the backers of the swift boaters?
Ask them why O'Neill who said he was never in Cambodia and only met
Nixon once, at the 1972 convention, is shown on the Oval Office tapes
telling Nixon he was in Cambodia.
Ask why Thurlow said that Kerry lied when he accepted a commendation
that he said he drew fire on a mission that, according to Thurlow,
never drew fire yet he accepted the same commendation for the same
mission.
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