This is the eeeeeeeeeee-eeeeeend.
I do not believe the quote above is from a letter to the editor. Rather, it is from a October 14, 1979 Boston Herald movie review of "Apocalypse Now' written by John Kerry. I just today got a copy of it which I have passed on to Swift Vets. The actual verbatim words are: "On more than one occasion, I like Martin Sheen in "Apocalypse Now," took my patrol boat into Cambodia. In fact I remember spending Christmas Eve of 1968 five miles across the Cambodian border being shot at by our South Vietnamese allies who were drunk and celebrating Christmas. The absurdity of almost being killed by our own allies in a country in which President Nixon claimed there were no American troops was very real."
That's interesting. I explicitly heard Carl Cameron describe it as a "letter to the editor" and that's what made me hunt up the article as I'd never heard of Kerry making a written 1979 commentary on his supposed Cambodian adventure.
Is it possible Kerry submitted a letter to the editor along with a movie review? I don't like details like that being misreported and I've noted Fox has made errors like that in the past (it goes without saying that the other media do that kind of lazy mixing up of phrasing all the time).
Thanks for the update on what you found.
"I do not believe the quote above is from a letter to the editor. Rather, it is from a October 14, 1979 Boston Herald movie review of "Apocalypse Now' written by John Kerry. I just today got a copy of it which I have passed on to Swift Vets. The actual verbatim words are: "On more than one occasion, I like Martin Sheen in "Apocalypse Now," took my patrol boat into Cambodia. In fact I remember spending Christmas Eve of 1968 five miles across the Cambodian border being shot at by our South Vietnamese allies who were drunk and celebrating Christmas. The absurdity of almost being killed by our own allies in a country in which President Nixon claimed there were no American troops was very real."
Is there any way that you can scan this and post it as thread on Free Republic. Then we will have documentation on the FR server and can store it on our hard disks.
This is even better than a letter to the editor.
A freeper has a great graphic art showing John John's Swift Boat sailing into one to the scenes of "Apocalypse Now".
This is great and thanks. Please ping me if you can scan this letter and post it here.
I would LOVE to see that review... is it online anywhere?