LOL, I give the Kerry adviser a little credit, he doesn't automatically believe the AP.
He didn't mean that - he was just covering himself, legally, to distance himself from any charge of slander or libel.
Damnit it......I am sick of hearing that John Kerry volunteered for Vietnam.
He joined the Navy when he KNEW he was going to get drafted!
And here is this:
Per Boston Globe....
"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."
http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/061603.shtml