[financeprof]

If he wasn't wounded in the head, why was this on the Kerry site:

AWFA: GMG2 DAVID MARION Alston, USN, 99T 57 46 BRAVO: ACTIVE DUTY, ATTACHED TO COASTAL DIVISION ELEVEN AT AN THOI, RVN CHARLIE: INJURY, HOSTILE FIRE DELTA: 29, JAN 69, 1030H, SONG CUA LON - SONG BO DE, WHILE SERVING AS FORWARD GUNNER ABOARD PCF 94, ENGAGED IN CORDON AND SEARCH OPERATIONS IN THE ABOVE RIVER, GMG2 Alston RECEIVED SHRAPNEL WOUNDS TO HIS HEAD WHEN PCF CAME UNDER INTENSE HOSTILE ROCKET AND A/W FIRE. ECHO: CONDITION GOOD, PROGNOSIS GOOD. PRESENCE OF NOK IS NOT MEDICALLY WARRANTED AS REPORTED BY CORPSMAN. FOXTROT: MRS. IDA MCQUILLAR ALSTON, MOTHER GOLF: NOK NOT OFFICIALLY NOTIFIED. REQ NOK NOT REPEAT NOT BE NOTIFIED. HOTEL: SERVICEMAN TREATED BY CORPSMAN AND MEDEVACED TO 29TH EVAC HOSP. BINH THUY. 2. PATIENT ABL TO COMMUNICATE WITH NOK. 3. NO FURTHER INFO WILL FOLLOW

This is Alston's WIA report courtesy of www.captainsquartersblog.com--he got it from Kerry's website. He's been following the Alston issue carefully, and I'd take a look at his coverage. Interestingly, this WIA report has since been removed from Kerry's site. Wonder why?

[Shermy]

Interestingly, this WIA report has since been removed from Kerry's site. Wonder why?

And why were the reports for December 1968 never on the site?

I suspect his handlers already knew the Cambodia problem shown by the previous changing of his story to "near" Cambodia.

[Wisconsin]

I guess I don't know. I served in the navy (not Vietnam) and would be astounded at any set of documents that provided a consistent accurate picture. The record keeping just wasn't that good.

[Swordmaker]

Interestingly, this WIA report has since been removed from Kerry's site. Wonder why?

GOOD QUESTION!!!

Here is the answer... at least as I see it.

Kerry has now relocated his recollections of "Christmas in Cambodia" into January so that he can claim that President Nixon was denying that he, or any US soldier, was in Cambodia. To do this, this "wounded in action" report for David Alsto presents a problem for Kerry. For Kerry's "new" recollection of his experience to be in January he has only an 11 day window of opportunity. That limits WHERE he could be in that time frame.

President Nixon took office on January 20, 1969... nine days later, this hostile fire occurred on January 29, 1969 QUITE A WAYS AWAY FROM CAMBODIA!!! Song Cua Lon is located at Latitude: 8° 41' 60 N, Longitude: 104° 49' 60 E.

Here is a map showing the location of Song Cua Lon:

And a map of Cambodia:

Song Cua Lon is located down almost on the Southernmost tip of the Mekong Delta in South Viet Nam. Which shows that on THAT DATE, January 29, 1969, Kerry''s PCF-94, and by implication, Kerry, was more than 120 miles away from Cambodia "as the crow flies" and a lot farther away by the twists and turns of any stream or river!

Especially streams and rivers rife with hostile fire. How long would it take Kerry and his boat to get from there to Cambodia???

That is why this report has mysteriously disappeared from Kerry's website.