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llano
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 Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 4:36 am Post subject: Yet another swift boat vet comes out for Kerry, but... |
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But now he has Kerry diving into the water to save Rassmann. 
| Quote: | | Kerry also picked up support from Wayne Langhofer, who told the Washington Post he was manning a machine-gun in a boat behind Kerry's and saw firing from both banks of a river as Kerry dived in to rescue Special Forces soldier James Rassmann, the basis for Kerry's Bronze Star. |
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LewWaters
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| Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 4:38 am Post subject: |
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And, does he explain all that fire coming from both banks and no damage reports on the boats?
Maybe Kerry's splash from diving in deflected the hail of bullets?
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cipher
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| Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 4:40 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Kerry also picked up support from Wayne Langhofer, who told the Washington Post he was manning a machine-gun in a boat behind Kerry's and saw firing from both banks of a river as Kerry dived in to rescue Special Forces soldier James Rassmann, the basis for Kerry's Bronze Star. |
Like every other "war story", just keeps getting better and better with each retelling.
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tvaughan
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That can't be accurate. There can't be another version of the story, can there?
I suspect the Washington Post may end up as the article of record on this event.
Not a bad thing. I wish they had pressed the "where are the bullet holes form 5000 meters and hour 1/2 of small arms fire", but still...
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ontheright
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| Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 4:49 am Post subject: |
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| Just how wide was this river? Obviously the enemy had very bad aim. |
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ASPB
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| Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 5:04 am Post subject: |
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| ontheright wrote: | | Just how wide was this river? Obviously the enemy had very bad aim. |
75 yards.
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Polaris
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| Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 5:12 am Post subject: |
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75 yards?
With any decent Assault Rifle (and the VC used AK-47s which are quite good) a blind man can hit a man sized target at 75 yards much less something the size of a swift-boat. Had their been enemy fire, the swift boats should have looked like swiss cheese and the damage reports should have so indicated.
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ASPB
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| Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 5:14 am Post subject: |
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Yep! 75 yards. Logic and experience doesn't apply when talking about Kerry's after action reports.
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twinkleUSA
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| Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 5:15 am Post subject: |
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We need to have a running tally of the number of versions of this story... I'm running out of fingers and toes to count on..lol.
Keep on rockin' the boat Swifties!!! |
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beansoup
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| Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 5:21 am Post subject: |
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Sorry for the interuption..Does anyone know, how to turn ON my HTML??
Appreciate it...
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soccer4ever
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| Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 5:22 am Post subject: |
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This won't help Kerry . . . the story is too different from all others told so far.
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