Thanks for your referenced post. From that post I snagged the following US News picture of Alston speaking at the DNC, which again shows how severely he was injured in January 1969, and how utterly unlikely it is that he could have reported back to duty aboad PCF-94 before Kerry left command of PCF-94 on March 13, 1969:
![](http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20040727/capt.dnc17707270223.cvn_alston__dnc177.jpg)
This story was initially posted by FReeper The_Bandit, wasn't it? Kewl, that we're that far ahead of the game.