It seems like there might be another vet who’s coming forward vouching for Kerry’s and Kerry’s crewmates’ version of events on the day the Rassman incident happened.
There was a letter to the editor to a local daily paper in Telluride, Colorado on Friday, August 20th — that’s the paper’s weekend edition. The letter writer identifies himself as Jim Russell and says he was “assigned as Psychological Operation Officer for the Swift Boat group out of An Thoi, Vietnam, from January 1969 to October 1969. As such, I was on No. 43 boat, skippered by Don Droz …”
Now, the demand for folks who were on that piece of water that day must be pretty intense at the moment. And it would seem odd that anyone at this point has yet to be contacted and chatted up by the press.
I have no way of knowing whether this guy was where he says he was on that day. And it could be a hoax. But I did call the editor of the paper, Suzanne Cheavens. She says she knows the guy (small town, I guess), knows he’s a Vietnam vet, and vouched for his credibility.
Some reporter should see if they can track this down and confirm or dispute that he was there on the day in question.
