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...crewmen have almost identical stories about his 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...
...most ominous incident occurred three weeks ago on the aircraft carrier Constellation. Charging "calculated racism," 120 black members of the crew-joined by twelve whites-staged a sitdown at sea. Explained Radarman Third Class Lonnie Brown, 23: "We wanted to air our views and tell the captain what was actually happening. We had to get the word across to the man who runs the ship." But Captain J.D. Ward refused to see the men. Instead he called for a general muster, and the blacks were suddenly surrounded by thousands of whites. Later they were put off the ship...
...bothers many of the sailors that they are fighting a passive, unseen enemy. "We've been shooting at the same place for seven years," says one radarman. "By now, the Viet Cong must have the area roped off and posted with signs that say, 'Keep out, the ship is firing.' " Still, unlike the ground units in South Viet Nam, the Navy is not setting an immediate course for home. "When they talk about the U.S. withdrawing from Viet Nam," says a chief petty officer, "they don't count the Navy, because...
Other countries have reacted with a case of the jitters. Last month most of the Argentine navy put to sea after a radarman flashed a report of suspected Soviet submarine activity. When Argentine ships arrived on the scene, the menacing shapes turned out to be a couple of copulating whales...
...about five miles, star shells were fired from Maddox. It was, in McNamara's words, "a very dark, moonless, overcast night"-or, as Maddox Radarman James Stankevitz put it, "darker than the hubs of hell...