Veteran tells how Kerry risked life for crew, By DAN EGAN

Veteran tells how Kerry risked life for crew, By DAN EGAN

(EXCERPT) Posted: Feb. 12, 2004

Del Sandusky was a little skeptical when he first met John Kerry in
Vietnam's Mekong Delta back in the late 1960s.

The enlisted sailor thought that Kerry, the new commander of his
crew's swift boat, might have been on a hunt for personal glory. Kerry
was, after all, a Yale graduate who had majored in political science.

"But we learned in the first couple of patrols - this is a very brave
man," Sandusky told a group of veterans Thursday at VFW Post 2903 on
Milwaukee's south side.

Sandusky, an Illinois resident who appears in a widely viewed te...

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