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Title: ya gotta wonder
Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts on November 13, 2004, 10:09:48 AM

Apocolypse Now. Released in 1979. A Swift Boat takes an Army agent up the river into Cambodia on a covert mission.

John Kerry claimed in 1986 that in 1968 he took a CIA agent up the river into Cambodia in his Swift Boat.  It was seared into his memory.

The similarity is striking.

Never thought about that before. But it damned sure makes me wonder.

Title: ya gotta wonder
Post by: Dune on November 13, 2004, 10:11:43 AM

Well, Teddy K does kinda look like Brando does now.

Title: ya gotta wonder
Post by: Airhead on November 13, 2004, 10:14:41 AM

It wasn't a swift boat in Apoclypse Now, it was a PBR (Patrol Boat, River). Swift boats are bigger, better armored and were used for costal areas mostly. PBRs are smaller, quicker and were used more on inland waterways.

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Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts on November 13, 2004, 10:30:05 AM

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Originally posted by Airhead
It wasn't a swift boat in Apoclypse Now, it was a PBR (Patrol Boat, River). Swift boats are bigger, better armored and were used for costal areas mostly. PBRs are smaller, quicker and were used more on inland waterways.

That may be, but the basic premise is still the same. The whole scenario is basicly the same, save for minor variances in vehicles and weapons.

Title: ya gotta wonder
Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts on November 13, 2004, 10:30:50 AM

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Originally posted by Dune
Well, Teddy K does kinda look like Brando does now.

You dug Marlon up?

Title: ya gotta wonder
Post by: Airhead on November 13, 2004, 10:35:11 AM

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Originally posted by Captain Virgil Hilts
That may be, but the basic premise is still the same. The whole scenario is basicly the same, save for minor variances in vehicles and weapons.

Both were good fiction.

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Post by: Gyro/T69 on November 13, 2004, 10:55:27 AM

Kerry did a review of the movie for the boston globe or some such. Should be out there in google land.

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Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts on November 13, 2004, 11:11:20 AM

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Originally posted by Gyro/T69
Kerry did a review of the movie for the boston globe or some such. Should be out there in google land.

Here:http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/rightwing68a.html

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Post by: JBA on November 13, 2004, 07:55:51 PM

HE ALSO CLAIMED TO BE AT SHEA FOR THE 86 GAME 6 WORLD SERIES WHEN THE BALL WHENT THROUGH BUKNERS LEGS, HE WAS IN MASS GIVEING A SPEACH TO A LATIN AMERICAN GROUP.

Can you say LIER, or maybe prone to fantasies

Sorry for the caps didn't notice o well.