Kerry-MIA
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By JOHN DIAMOND
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Navy Lt. John Kerry knew he had no business steering his Mekong River patrol boat across the border into Cambodia, but orders were orders.
But for Kerry, who spent six violent months commanding a patrol boat on the Mekong River, there's always been a ring of truth to allegations of abandoned Americans. By Christmas 1968, part of Kerry's patrol extended across the border of South Vietnam into Cambodia.
"We were told, `Just go up there and do your patrol. Everybody was over there (in Cambodia). Nobody thought twice about it," Kerry said. One of the missions, which Kerry, at the time, was ordered not to discuss, involved taking CIA operatives into Cambodia to search for enemy enclaves.
"I can remember wondering, `If you're going to go, what happens to you,"' Kerry said.
Kerry Staff now states Kerry was on a secret Santa mission and that the record of it has been sanitized.
I thought it was 4 months.
Six months? really!
But for Kerry, who spent six violent months commanding a patrol boat on the Mekong River,
Given that he was in country 4 months this might be a little hard to do. Maybe they were metric months.
Or maybe he was using a different calendar
http://webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar.html