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Originally posted by Gattigap
Whoa. Pass the bong, dude. Don't know where *that* came from, but it sure wasn't the article I posted.
To be fair, I'm sure that when you glue individual pages of Unfit to Command to your bedroom walls, the different stories tend to blur together.
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Too much information for me to cite properly, but I swear I read it on the Tribune site. There was an accompanying article after all, which I now can't find.
At least some of it was here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2004Aug21.html
But i don't have time to reread it at the moment, as i have a meeting. I'll edit this post if I'm wrong.
Just search for the term "grenade", for example.
ETA the following quotes from the article:
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"As they were heading back to the boat, Kerry and Rassmann decided to blow up a five-ton rice bin to deny food to the Vietcong... On the count of three, they tossed their grenades into the hole and ran. Evidently, Kerry did not run fast enough. "He got some frags and pieces of rice in his rear end," Rassmann said with a laugh. "It was more embarrassing than painful."
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"In "Tour of Duty," these thoughts are attributed to a "diary" kept by Kerry. But the endnotes to Brinkley's book say that Kerry "did not keep diaries in these weeks in February and March 1969 when the fighting was most intense." In the acknowledgments to his book, Brinkley suggests that he took at least some of the passages from an unfinished book proposal Kerry prepared sometime after November 1971, more than two years after he had returned home from Vietnam. "
You still sober?
