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"According to the swifties, there was absolutely no enemy fire during the Rassman event. One of the boats struck a mine. All of the other boats immediately began strafing the shoreline with gunfire(standard procedure) After a while it was apparent that there was no enemy fire. They further say that right after the mine went off, Kerry spun his boat around and bugged out of there. Rassman was on the fantail and was pitched overboad during the rapid acceleration. The other boats picked up survivers in the water, while Kerry returned and picked up Rassman."

Now, where did you read or hear this? This is not what I have been hearing.

Actually, O'Neill related basically this story on the Hugh Hewitt show just a few minutes ago. Specifically, that Kerry fled and threw Rassman of the boat in the process; and that it was the other boats that went to retrieve the crewman from the boat that hit the mine.

Heard a man by the name of Gardener, who was sKerry's gunner, give this version of the incident. It was on Michael Savage's talk show last night .