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...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 periodically appeared in Kerry?s war diaries. Still, my various inquiries to the U.S. Naval Historical Center, the Swift Boat Crew Directory and other outstanding reference outlets proved futile...
...sent a small contingent of Marines last week to protect the U.S. embassy in Port-au-Prince, there was no immediate agreement on sending international troops, either as peacekeepers or to help Aristide out of the country. Over the weekend, some 2,200 additional Marines prepared to board naval vessels, poised to cruise just off Haiti's coast this week. Meanwhile, more than 500 Haitians fleeing to the U.S. on boats were intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard, which sent them home without even granting interviews to determine if they merited asylum...
...Lincoln went for it. These 19th century naval disasters are satisfying largely in direct proportion to the suffering of the protagonists, and Riley's agonies are of truly Shackletonian proportions. But there's richness in the narrative too. Skeletons on the Zahara (the Z is a 19th century spelling) is more than a horror story. It's a tale about a man who discovers his own courage in the face of catastrophe, and an instructive fable about cultural contact: Americans and Arabs searching for firm common ground in a wasteland of shifting sands. --By Lev Grossman
...likes of Kenny Chesney or Tim McGraw. That changed after Sept. 11 when Courtesy tumbled out of him in a 20-minute writing binge. "I wrote it so that I had something to play for our fighting men and women," he says. In a trial run at the U.S. Naval Academy, it brought the house down. "But once people said I should release it, I knew there was going to be trouble. I'm comfortable being extreme, but saying 'boot in your ass' is so extreme. Of course, if you say, 'foot in your butt,' you got no song...
DIED. THOMAS H. MOORER, 91, Chief of Naval Operations during the Vietnam War (1967-70) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1970-74); in Bethesda, Md. In a 1998 CNN documentary and an accompanying TIME story, he was quoted as confirming that U.S. forces had used nerve gas in Laos during the Vietnam War. Moorer denied he ever said that, and both CNN and TIME retracted the charges and apologized...