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On Feb 28, 1969, I was officer in charge of PCF-23, one of three Swift boats - including Kerry's PCF-94 and Lt. j.g. Donald Droz's PCF-43 - that carried Vietnamese Regional and Popular Force troops and a Navy demolition team up the Dong Cung, a narrow tributary of the Bay Hap River, to conduct a sweep of the area. Ambushes were a virtual certainty, and that day was no exception. The Viet Cong in the area had come to expect that the heavily loaded boats would lumber on past an ambush, firing at the entrenched attackers, beaching upstream and putting...

You know the game. Kerry hits on a keyword and we take a drink. Please submit your keyword choices in a reply and i'll add the most popular five to the keywords section of tonight's live thread. Keywords are limited to 20 characters, no spaces.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Teresa Heinz Kerry says anger, not ideology, prompted her to become a Democrat. The wife of Sen. John Kerry, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, says her emotion stemmed from the way the Republican Party, to which she had pledged allegiance, treated Democratic Sen. Max Cleland of Georgia in 2002. Cleland, who lost both legs and an arm as an Army captain during the Vietnam War, lost his re-election bid in a bitter campaign against then-Rep. Saxby Chambliss. The GOP had raised questions about Cleland's patriotism because of his position on legislation to create the Department of Homeland...

Democrat John Kerry on Monday rolled out a pair of new television ads as part of a $25 million, 19-state advertising buy that campaign officials say is unprecedented in size and scope for a presidential challenger. The biographical spots heavily emphasize the Massachusetts senator's naval service in Vietnam. They come amidst grumbling from some fellow Democrats that Kerry's campaign has failed to counter weeks of attacks on his record by President Bush's campaign advertisements, Vice President Dick Cheney and other Republican officials. The new, 60-second Kerry spots, which will run for at least three weeks, are part of a "wholly...