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...Ideal mate: Someone who can always make me laugh...
...Ideal mate: Sweet, cute and caring...
...When researching Tour of Duty some of these veterans proved extremely difficult to track down. Stephen W. Hatch, a boatswain?s mate who served under Kerry on PCF-44, proved particularly elusive. Eventually I located him in Niagra Falls, New York and he told me about his admiration for Chuck Berry guitar licks, rose tattoos and John Kerry. As my book went to press the only Swift crewmate I couldn?t locate was Gardner. A quick count in the index of Tour of Duty shows that Gardner?s name appears on a dozen different pages throughout my narrative. He also...
...This was unexpected news. In Tour of Duty I portrayed the crew of PCF-44 as a true Band of Brothers-it turns out they were a Band of Brothers minus one. A disappointed Wasser gave me Gardner?s telephone numbers, reminding me that PCF-44 gunner?s mate was nicknamed ?The Wild Man? by his crewmates for his hair-trigger penchant for firing M-60s into the mangrove thicket. ?Let me know what you find out,? Wasser told me. ?I?m having trouble understanding where he?s coming from...
...valor during various firefights and skirmishes. But memories can vary from person to person; Gardner insists that the Kerry he knew in Vietnam was a singularly un-heroic figure. He dismisses the glowing eyewitness accounts of his crewmates Jim Wasser (Radarman), Bill Zaladonis (Petty Officer), Drew Whitlow (Boatswain?s Mate) and Stephen Hatch (Boatswain?s Mate) as bunk. ?Kerry sat some of them down and convinced them to buy into his side of what happened over there,? he explains in bizarrely conspiratorial fashion with no evidence to back him up. ?When you?re as persuasive as Kerry...