in Cambodia but rather "near" the country. In an
interview with the Providence Journal-Bulletin that
appeared in April, 1994, Kerry said "Christmas Eve I
was up getting shot at somewhere near Cambodia." The
account of Kerry's service in Douglas Brinkley's Tour
of Duty says Kerry was on patrol near Cambodia, but
does not mention him being in the country. "Because
they were only an hour away from that neighboring
country," Brinkley writes, "Kerry began reading up on
Cambodia's history...." Brinkley also quotes from
Kerry's Vietnam journal, in which Kerry wrote that he
was "patrolling near the Cambodian line."
...
Finally, another member of Kerry's crew, Jim Wasser,
who supports Kerry in the presidential race, told the
Dallas Observer last month that he wasn't sure where
PCF-44 was at the time in question. "On Christmas in
1968, we were close [to Cambodia]," Wasser said. "I
don't know exactly where we were. I didn't have the
chart. It was easy to get turned around with all the
rivers around there. But I'll say this: We were the
farthest inland that night. I know that for sure."
http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york200408101318.asp
--- William Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >(Kerry was never in Cambodia
>
> Are you sure he was never there?
>
> My father (who served two tours in Vietnam) used to
> deny any US incursions into Cambodia. It was
> official policy. That's how he looked at it.
>
> After his first reunion trip (11ACR "Blackhorse") he
> started telling stories about missions into Cambodia
> (many others too that he had kept bottled up for ~20
> years), had maps and etc. to prove he was there,
> stuff he had kept in a locked trunk that had moved
> with us every post we went to. He men in his former
> unit to back up his story.
>
> So what's your point? Kerry's a liberal and
> therefore must be lying about where he might have
> been Christmas 1968?
>
> Dad BTW is a dyed-in-the-wool Republican. About as
> conservative as you can get. He was there. So what
> makes you so sure Kerry wasn't?
>
> will
>
>
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