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Wreck of PT109 Found
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,57444,00.html ^ | July 11, 2002 | TamiPie

Posted on 07/11/2002 9:56:40 AM PDT by TamiPie

Edited on 04/22/2004 12:34:07 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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1 posted on 07/11/2002 9:56:40 AM PDT by TamiPie
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To: TamiPie
ping
2 posted on 07/11/2002 9:58:15 AM PDT by TamiPie
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To: TamiPie
Maybe the same crew could recover Teddy's Buick.
3 posted on 07/11/2002 9:58:49 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: TamiPie
Is there any other recorded incident of a PT boat being rammed be a destroyer?
4 posted on 07/11/2002 9:59:15 AM PDT by Semper Paratus
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
True, and I'm sure Hollywood is going to write up a new script for a movie, like Titanic...
5 posted on 07/11/2002 10:00:02 AM PDT by TamiPie
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To: Semper Paratus
Not to my knowledge. Maybe they saw the numbers "PT109" on the hull. That's how they know.
6 posted on 07/11/2002 10:00:51 AM PDT by TamiPie
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To: TamiPie
I'm not sure.
7 posted on 07/11/2002 10:01:19 AM PDT by TamiPie
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
LOL.
8 posted on 07/11/2002 10:03:13 AM PDT by Zack Nguyen
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To: TamiPie
In 1960 (before the election) columnist Drew Pearson reported General MacArthur said Kennedy should have been court-martialed for letting a Japanese destroyer mow him down.

Mac promptly denied the report, but who knows? Sounds like something he'd have said.

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

9 posted on 07/11/2002 10:04:15 AM PDT by mikeb704
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To: Cyrano
ping
10 posted on 07/11/2002 10:04:55 AM PDT by Terriergal
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
lol! Great idea!
11 posted on 07/11/2002 10:05:16 AM PDT by Terriergal
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To: TamiPie
"Kennedy towed an injured crewman to shore by swimming with a strap from the man's lifejacket in his teeth."
Later in life he pulled Marilyn Monroe around the White House with her bra strap in his teeth...
12 posted on 07/11/2002 10:05:40 AM PDT by Far Right Of Left
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"Finding PT-109 is especially meaningful to the members of my family, but we also believe it represents the story of all the brave young men who fought with such courage in the South Pacific to ensure victory during World War II," Kennedy said in a statement.

Something else for the Faux Royal Family of America to cling to and market in order to stay in the spotlight. No doubt the History Channel, A&E's Biography and National Geographic are scrambling as we speak.

13 posted on 07/11/2002 10:06:32 AM PDT by TADSLOS
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Maybe the same crew could recover Teddy's Buick.

Oh, you mean the PoonTang-109?

14 posted on 07/11/2002 10:08:53 AM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: TADSLOS
I was channel-surfing last night and saw one of those, many, made-for-television love letter movies about the Kennedys. I skip them every time.
15 posted on 07/11/2002 10:10:12 AM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Maybe the same crew could recover Teddy's Buick.

Ahem, Teddy was driving an Oldsmobile.

16 posted on 07/11/2002 10:14:38 AM PDT by TC Rider
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Maybe the same crew could recover Teddy's Buick.

ROFL...Didn't Ted swim to the shore of that notorious Pond with his lawyer's phone number clenched in his teeth?

18 posted on 07/11/2002 10:17:37 AM PDT by O Neill
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To: shigure
Not so quick. Here is a link to PT boat losses in World War 2. The cause of PT-109 is attributed to 'Surface Craft', just like 9 other ones, so it's possible that other boats got rammed, too.
19 posted on 07/11/2002 10:24:10 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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