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Politics : Proof that John Kerry is Unfit for Command

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To: American Spirit who wrote (14361)	10/1/2004 9:01:10 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (2) of 27181

"The night was pitch-black, neither Swift's search or boarding lights were working properly, and both boats kept getting stuck on the bottom of the shallow channel. Many minutes of silent patrolling had gone by when one of the men yelled Sampan off the port bow. Everybody froze and we slowed the engines quickly. But the sampan was already by us and wasn't stopping. It was past curfew and nothing was allowed in the river. I told the gunner to fire a few warning shots and in the confusion all guns opened up. We moved in on the sampan and taking one of the battle lanterns off the bulkhead shone it on the silhouette of the craft that was now dead in the water. The light revealed a woman standing in the stern of the sampan with a child of perhaps two years or less in her arms. Neither was harmed. We asked her where the men from the stern were, as one of the gunners was sure that he ahd seen someone moving back there. She gesticulated wildly and I could see traces of blood on the engine mounting. It was obvious that they had been blown overboard. Then somebody said there was a body up front and we moved in closer to see the limbs of a small child limp on the stacks of rice. She had already covered it, and when one of the men asked me if I wanted it uncovered I said no, realized the face would stay with me for the rest of my life and that it was better not to know whether there was a smile or a grimace or whether it was a girl or a boy. " The Navy report of this incident, written by Kerry reads, "20 January PCFs 21 and 44 operating in An Xuyen Province engaged the enemy with a resultant GDA of VC KIA (BC) body count four VC KIA (EST) and two VC CIA (captured in action)"---the mother and the baby VC captured in action according to Kerry.

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