On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 08:15:59 -0500, "George Z. Bush"
wrote:

Ed Rasimus wrote:
On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 04:38:17 -0500, Cub Driver
wrote:

Saw a "reunion" photo two days ago of JFKerry shaking hands with old
Swift boatmates. Both were decked out in fur collared leather Navy
flight jackets. What are the odds of both of these former enlisted
guys having the same jackets? Staged event? Probably.

Why do you keep on demoting Kerry? I think most of us have already gathered
that you're not one of his fans, but he WAS a naval officer and you calling him
an enlisted man (on at least two postings) only degrades your own credibility.

George Z.

Read more slowly. Kerry was shaking hands with "old Swift
boatmates"--that's plural and since Kerry was the only officer aboard,
that would make them enlised.

The Navy flight jacket, while chronologically appropriate historical
uniform gear was neither enlisted wear nor boat crew apparel. The
coincidence of the two former enlisted showing up to greet their
former commander is not unusual. The coincidence of them both,
independently having acquired such a jacket and then choosing to wear
it to the event is.

I have never referred to Lt. Kerry as an enlisted man at any time. Not
in this post which referes to the two boatmates, nor to the discussion
of military service elsewhere in the thread in which the allusion was
to the "combat service" of Al Gore.

My credibility can always be challenged on things I've said, but
please not on things you've misinterpreted.


Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
Smithsonian Institution Press
ISBN #1-58834-103-8