[Jim_Curtis]

Although there are lots of things about this story that make it highly questionable, there is one particular thing about this that makes it an absurd lie. I'll give the answer later if no one guesses it.

[Smokin' Joe]

First, it seems if the dog was blown off of the boat, the boat would have been riding a mite lower in the water after that....

Kerry said nothing about having a boat sunk....

[Cincinatus' Wife]

According to the men who served with Kerry, his boat was always the one that took off when the action started. I guess the dog would have had to have been catapulted off the deck to reach one of the other boats who remained to help the stricken boat and its crew.

[MeekOneGOP]

[b4its2late]

I'm surprised they didn't have a hamster.....

[Osage Orange]

John Kerry was in Vietnam?

I didn't know that......

[Osage Orange]

The dog told Kerry to "Shove it"..!! , not "catapult him"?

[Edit35]

In fact, I suggest we submit little VC the dog for a post-caninous medal for its outstanding bravery in the face of Kerry leadership.

[norton]

I'm real late on this but it just seems that Kerry is telling the same story twice.
Group of boats,
mine under one or another of them,
thrown overboard,
miraculous rescue....

As to Bronze Stars, I got mine because the Headquarters enlisted guys liked me...basically a Radar O'Reiley asks the colonel to sign 'some papers' deal. But without a "V".

And the "enemy" versus "supressive" fire. Odds are good that SOP was to assume an ambush and that there was ONLY fire from the Swifts. In that I can almost forgive Rassman, who would be otherwise occupied at the time and not have a clue where all the noise was coming from. But Kerry WOULD know and was apparently the only player in the scene to claim otherwise.

[TrueKnightGalahad]

"I'll give the answer later if no one guesses it."

Is it later yet?

[freeangel]

Did he mix up rassman with VC on Christmas eve in Cambodia after ir was seared into his heart?

[R_Kangel]

So, I guess this VC critter must have been a deaf mute dog since Mr JFK and crew had to search frantically. I mean don't dogs make sounds like "Bark Bark" or something? I have a dog and he makes a sound kind of like that when he is trying to get my attention. This dog surely would have been whining or yelping at least if he was thrown in the water.

[slimer]

To my knowledge, Kerry's boat never took a direct hit except for a few grains of self inflicted rice.

I would think that a swift boat taking a direct hard hit as a result of a mine would have at least disabled it and at worst destroyed and sunk it.

[MinuteGal]

What was a dog doing on a Swift boat patrol in the first place when one bark could betray a position and get lots of men killed?

Leni

[MinuteGal]

How much was that doggie in the Swiftboat?
The one with the waggly tail
How much was that doggie in the Swiftboat?
My, my, how that doggie could sail

Leni

[Raleigh]

and (the dog) landed confused, but unhurt,

All dogs need and deserve God's Blessing in a situation like this.
How did John Kerry know the dog was confused?

I am not sure we 'average' people understand fully the capabilities of JFJ II! (/sc)