""I didn't really want to get involved in the war," Kerry said in a little-noticed contribution to a book of Vietnam reminiscences published in 1986. "When I signed up for the swift boats, they had very little to do with the war. They were engaged in coastal patrolling and that's what I thought I was going to be doing."
But two weeks after he arrived in Vietnam, the swift boat mission changed -- and Kerry went from having one of the safest assignments in the escalating conflict to one of the most dangerous. Under the newly launched Operation SEALORD, swift boats were charged with patrolling the narrow waterways of the Mekong Delta to draw fire and smoke out the enemy. Cruising inlets and coves and canals, swift boats were especially vulnerable targets."
http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/061603.shtml So how did Kerry get wounded on December 2, 1968--just one day after arriving in Vietnam?
There is something seriously wrong here.
The facts of Kerry's service record just do not jibe
with the "War Hero" persona he likes to portray
"I didn't really want to get involved in the war, ... When I signed up for the swift boats, they had very little to do with the war. They were engaged in coastal patrolling and that's what I thought I was going to be doing." This sounds like the opening chapters of a "Flashman" novel, in which the hero, a cowardly roguish Victorian English soldier, connives to remove himself from danger, but invariably ends up in the thick of it.
