Posted on 08/27/2004 10:55:11 AM PDT by Pete
Heard this mentioned by O'Neill on Liddy today. From the Kerry eulogy of Thomas Beladeau submitted into the Congressional Record.
There was the time we were carrying special forces up a river and a mine exploded under our boat sending it 2 feet into the air. We were receiving incoming rocket and small arms fire and Tommy was returning fire with his M-60 machine gun when it literally broke apart in his hands. He was left holding the pieces unable to fire back while one of the Green Berets walked along the edge of the boat to get Tommy another M-60. As he was doing so, the boat made a high speed turn to starboard and the Green Beret kept going--straight into the river. The entire time while the boat went back to get the Green Beret, Tommy was without a machine gun or a weapon of any kind, but all the time he was hurling the greatest single string of Lowell-Chelmsford curses ever heard at the Viet Cong. He literally had swear words with tracers on them!
"Left hand down a bit"
The "story" now also is that no one saw Rassman fall off the boat. They didn't notice until they saw his head bobbing in the water behind the boat.
So how does Kerry know that Rassman flew off the boat during the "high speed" turn if he did see him fall into the water?
make that "didn't" see
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