I’ve been receiving a lot of queries lately about things that did or did not happen during the time John Kerry and I served together in the Navy. I’ve also received large quantities of reading material, mostly email and mostly unpersuasive, from people attempting to trash, for political purposes, his relatively brief combat service in Swift boats. I have also declined offers to join groups attempting to discredit him on the basis of his naval service. As I have previously written, Kerry and I served together in USS Gridley (DLG 21) in 1967 and 1968. Gridley was a new guided...