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...There is a dispute between Kerry and Gardner about what happened next. Kerry insists that the engagement was over when the boats pulled out. ?We didn?t leave until the mission was over and all the boats headed out together,? says Kerry. He claims that only after the firefight was over-and enemy fire had been supressed-did he order PCF-44 to head back to a primitive base at Dong Tam so Gardner could receive medical attention from the U.S. Army?s Third Surgical Division, based in a makeshift hospital there. But Gardner asserts that Kerry was simply fleeing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tenth Brother | 3/9/2004 | See Source »

...When told of Gardner?s criticism of Kerry?s order, all of PCF-44?s other crewmen disagreed with the tough talking South Carolinian?s assessment. ?Kerry made the right command decision,? Wasser, second in command of PCF-44, maintains. ?We went into a 30 or 40 yard wide canal, suppressed enemy fire and got out of there before we were killed. You just don?t hang around to get shot at. Gardner doesn?t know what he is talking about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tenth Brother | 3/9/2004 | See Source »

...Then there is Gardner?s bold claim that Kerry use to take PCF-44 four or five miles from shore every night so not to get shot at. When pressed how this could be so, since oftentimes they were 25 miles upriver, he backed down. ?Okay, when we were in the rivers we didn?t go to sea,? he averred. ?But he always tried to park it away from the action and hide.? The other members of PCF-44 were incredulous when they heard Gardner?s claim. To Wasser it was ?erroneous to his memory,? to Zaladonis ?just not true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tenth Brother | 3/9/2004 | See Source »

...Which brought the interview to the crux of Gardner?s beef against Kerry. Gardner-who remembers no important dates or times or locales-claims that Kerry once threatened him with a court martial. The incident happened when Gardner, who told me he had ?no trouble shooting gooks,? saw a Viet Cong guerilla with an AK-47 in a boat and started firing. ?I lay the hammer down on him,? Gardner explains. ?I just put a finger on the gun: boom, boom, boom, boom. He?s done. He got flipped out of the boat, he went straight down. That?s when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tenth Brother | 3/9/2004 | See Source »

...hardnosed Gardner returned from Vietnam in February 1969; Kerry came home a month later. The two men haven?t spoken in nearly 35 years. Kerry has no recollection of any of Gardner?s accusations, including the threatening of a court martial. None of PCF-44?s crew trusts Gardner?s memory. Today Gardner claims he works at Millennium Services (an insurance inspection company) and is bitter about Kerry?s national prominence. At various times in our interview he complained about Kerry ?running around with Hanoi Jane? after the war and having a ?rich wife.? And-like Limbaugh-he is determined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tenth Brother | 3/9/2004 | See Source »

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