Thinking about your heroism and your CO gives me a journalistic woodie. I may soil myself, or at least the pages of New York Times and the Boston Globe, with the results. Mary Mapes would unnerstan.
Yes, Lonesome, if you need the truth about military history and especially Vietnam and Lt. John F. Kerry, (who as you may know is a highly decorated veteran of that conflict and is currently serving as the Junior Senator from your very own state, a seat once held by the Virgin and Martyr, St. John F. Kennedy, whose initials he shares), read the NYT and BG ... before soiling.
PS, I trust you are not doing your reading in the Public Library of Worcester ... it might disturb the perverts who gather there for web research.