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Does anyone recall the ACLU running any ads against the Patriot Act during the democRAT convention?

The timeline in "Unfit for Command" for John Kerry's deployment on the USS Gridley doesn't match the ship's operations as listed in Kerry's Fitness Reports. "Unfit for Command"'s timeline indicates that Gridley departed Vietnam January 2, 1968 and, travelling via Australia, returned to Long Beach on June 8. Missing from this account is an additional period of Gulf of Tonkin SAR duty in the time period April 1 - May 5, 1968. This information appears in Kerry's Fitness Report for the period of March 23 - July 20, 1968. Regarding kerry's MLK assassination story, I believe that it's possible for...

In a conversation last night, I was told that I couldn't have possibly seen what I'm 100% certain that I did. As a civilian contractor for GTE-Sylvania, I did course development work and pilot teaching of a course on a piece of electronic equipment. This was back in the 1977 or so timeframe. While teaching a course in Groton, CT, I got to go aboard a fast attack boat for a short tour. (I was really struck by how much bigger it was than I had imagined.) The part that I was told couldn't have happened was that I recall...