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To: LindyBill who wrote (60791)	8/16/2004 11:49:09 AM
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Another one bites the dust Posted by McQ - Q&O blog As Dale reported on Saturday, and a subject Captain Ed has reported on extensively, it appears there was some "fire" in the smoke of the Alston story as it concerns Kerry's Silver Star performance (ok, I picked that word purposely because I'm just in a freakin' snarky mood). Alston claims he was there and remembers it vividly. Its seared -- seared in him memory. abcnews.go.com Alston recalled: "I know when John Kerry told Del to beach that damn boat, this was a brand-new ball game. We wasn't running. We took it to Charlie." Except, per other's who were there, it seems like Alston wasn't:http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york200408160842.asp Whatever the exact dates, Hurley confirmed that Alston was not on board PCF-94 on February 28, 1969, the day Kerry earned a Silver Star for an engagement in which he beached his Swift Boat and chased down and killed a Viet Cong guerilla armed with a rocket launcher. That suggests that Alston, who was wounded on January 29, was indeed away for at least a month. Short was manning the guns on February 28 and received the Navy Commendation Medal for his work. According to Hurley, Alston was on board PCF-94 during the now-famous March 13, 1969 engagement in which Kerry pulled Army Green Beret Jim Rassman from the water after one of the boats in Kerry's group struck a mine. Kerry won a Bronze Star for that action, as well as a third Purple Heart. While this "band of brothers" stuff worked fairly well in the many essentially local Senate races in Mass, it is starting to wither under the intense spotlight of national exposure. Then it was Massachusset's problem. But now, its about a national office, and the scrutiny is on an entirely different level. qando.net