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To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (60921)8/17/2004 9:38:41 AM
From: Mary Cluney  Read Replies (6) of 793755
 
<<<I fired a couple of hundred rounds and realized we were not receiving any return fire from either bank. The other boats quit firing and we commenced rescue operations for the PCF 3 crew and boat. WE DID NOT RECEIVE ANY FIRE FROM EITHER BANK. Our boat picked up members of the disabled PCF-3. I continued to watch all the area for any VC activity and witnessed the majority of the events of the day.

John Kerry received a Bronze Star for this incident, claiming that he saved Jim Rassman?s life, at the risk of his own, while receiving hostile fire. That simply did not happen.>>>

With all due respect to Van Odell - after reading this testimony - I have concluded that I can not dispute Odell's account of what happened. I was not there and he was..

What is important here is not what Odell saw, but what he didn't see.

Rassman was in a different boat than John Kerry and according to his testimony at the time 35 years ago, he testified that John Kerry pulled him out of the water, risking his own life, saving his life. The men in John Kerry's boat have testified in the same way.

Is Odell saying that Rassman was not in the water and John Kerry did not save his life? Did he see that himself? Is that what he is claiming?

If John Kerry did not pull Rasman out of the water and they made all this up, I will agree that John Kerry is not fit to be President.

However, if it did happen and Odell didn't see it, I don't think he has much to say about this incident.
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