Shot at? By whom? Doing what?
Donald Sensing blog
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Glenn Reynolds posted a digital photo of a page in the Congressional Record in which Sen. John Kerry claims to have been inside Cambodia on Christmas Day, 1968, being shot at by Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge.
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Mr. President, I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia. I remember what it was like to be shot at by Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge and Cambodians, and have the President of the United States telling the American people that I was not there; the troops were not in Cambodia.
I have that memory which is seared - seared - in me, ...
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Just One Minute cites a Worldnet Daily piece that quotes Kerry as saying,
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I remember spending Christmas Eve of 1968 five miles across the Cambodian border being shot at by our South Vietnamese allies who were drunk and celebrating Christmas.
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WorldNet Daily in turn credits the quote to a Boston Herald article. My search on the Herald's web site did not turn up an article with those words, but a commenter on this page (no individual permalink) says the Herald article appeared October 14, 1979, so it's not surprising it's not online.
What perked my interest in this quote was the claim that drunken South Vietnamese were celebrating Christmas. Problem is that while there were (and are) Vietnamese Christians, mostly Roman Catholic, they were far outnumbered by Buddhists, Hoa Hao and Cao Dai.
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The odds that a whole unit, drunk or not, would celebrate Christmas, is remote. Perhaps the shooters were just a few drunken, Roman Catholic South Vietnamese soldiers. Yeah, maybe.<font color=black>
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