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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (500669)	11/29/2003 7:18:25 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

But he has been in far worse jams, and prevailed. On Feb. 28, 1969, while Mr. Kerry was on patrol in Vietnam, his boat came under hostile fire. With his crew's support, he ordered the boat straight toward the shore, transforming it from a wide horizontal target into a skinny vertical battering ram that hit the beach, where a solitary Vietcong held a B-40 rocket-propelled grenade launcher. Mr. Kerry chased and killed him. Adm. Elmo Zumwalt would later say jokingly that it was not clear whether Mr. Kerry should be court-martialed or awarded the Silver Star. He got the Silver Star. nytimes.com nytimes.com