[Breyean]

From what I read though, when Kerry volunteered for that duty, they were not yet assigned to the rivers, but were doing coastal patrols only. When he got his assignment and the river patrols began, he freaked, because he thought he had been signing up for a much less dangerous duty.

If this is true, he warrants no defense.

[Jackson Brown]

From what I read though, when Kerry volunteered for that duty, they were not yet assigned to the rivers, but were doing coastal patrols only. When he got his assignment and the river patrols began, he freaked, because he thought he had been signing up for a much less dangerous duty.


Kerry said EXACTLY this about when the mission of the swift boats changed after he went to swift boat school -- in a book HE wrote in 1986. "I had NO desire to get into the war"