Yes, this only deals with the Silver Star incident. There were 3 boats involved. William Rood seems to be the skipper of one of them. The skipper of the 3rd boat has died.
"In the book, O'Neill and Corsi said Kerry chased down a "young Viet Cong in a loincloth … clutching a grenade launcher which may or may not have been loaded."
Rood recalled the fleeing Viet Cong was "a grown man, dressed in the kind of garb the VC usually wore." There were other attackers as well, he said, and his boat and Kerry's boat took significant fire. "
The point of contention is not related in any way, shape or form to the single VC.
The point of contention is whether or not Kerry "attacked a NUMERICALLY SUPERIOR enemy WHILE under withering fire." Rood's account does not get to that point of contention. Kerry's Silver Star citation recites that ht action of Kerry beaching HIS boat directly in front of enemy ambushers resulted in routing a score of VC. The Swiftees dispute that point.