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...poise under enemy fire. They tell stories of his rescuing a Green Beret from drowning, killing a Viet Cong sniper, and saving 42 Vietnamese civilians from starvation. To paraphrase Ernest Hemingway they claim that in combat Kerry exemplified ?grace under pressure.? But PCF-44 Gunner?s Mate Stephen M. Gardner-in a long telephone interview from his home in Clover, South Carolina-has a starkly different memory. ?Kerry was chickenshit,? he insists. ?Whenever a firefight started he always pulled up stakes and got the hell out of Dodge...
...When writing my book Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War (William Morrow & Company) I interviewed all of Kerry?s crewmates-all that is, except Gardner. They came from mid-size towns scattered across America including Kankakee, Illinois, and Ames, Iowa and Columbia, South Carolina. When first approached for interviews in late 2002 these Navy veterans told me they would enthusiastically campaign for their old skipper if he ever decided to run for president; they?ve lived up to their promise. Whether it?s PCF-94?s Chief Petty Officer Del Sandusky talking about Kerry?s undaunted courage...
Sophomore goalie Lydia Gardner posted six saves throughout the game, but her efforts were not enough to stop Brown from dominating Harvard by the end of the contest...
...Gardner and senior Elana Miller split time in goal, making five and six saves respectively...
...think the biggest sticking point is whether there ought to be some education facility, particularly a school, around which the campus would center,” Gardner said. “Should we simply have a bunch of buildings that are connected, or should we have something else that’s a central metaphor for the school, like a school itself? That’s been where there’s no consensus...