NEW YORK -- Retired Rear Adm. William L. Schachte Jr. said Thursday in his first on-the-record interview about the Swift boat veterans dispute that "I was absolutely in the skimmer" in the early morning on Dec. 2, 1968, when Lt. (j.g.) John Kerry was involved in an incident which led to his first Purple Heart.

"Kerry nicked himself with a M-79 (grenade launcher)," Schachte said...
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Russ Vaugh sent this article to E*D, pointing out that two men who claimed to have been "alone with Kerry" may have been pressured into making that assertion by the Kerry camp. Is the Kerry camp having Kerry's band of brothers lie in order to prop up Kerry's glorified War Stories? hmmm...