Why Jim Rassman is mistaken (not lying, mistaken) about being under fire in the Hap Bay river when John Kerry fished him out, March 13, 1969. This was the event for which Kerry was awarded the Bronze Star Medal. This essay by Marine combat veteran Grant K. Holcomb makes a persuasive case, IMO, and buttresses accounts by other swift boat crew members at the scene that there was no enemy fire.
John Kerry wrote, "everywhere around me there is nothing but violence and war and gross insensitivity" when he was patrolling the Mekong, right? Nope, it was when he slept in clean sheets and enjoyed three hots a day
... in Febuary 1968, while Kerry was an ensign aboard the missile cruiser U.S.S. Gridley as it plied the dangerous waters of war-torn Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. The Gridley was still almost 6000 miles and many weeks away from the waters offshore of Vietnam.
What drama!
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Here's a whole library of freeware links, some of which look pretty promising, although I haven't tried any of them out.
by Donald Sensing, 8/30/2004 10:41:32 AM. Permalink |
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