Reply #82: Not every scrap has been collected

[tn-guy]

I beg to disagree. Noticeably absent from the evidence collected are the pertinent excerpts from the diary that Kerry kept during his service. He gave Brinkley access to the diary for his research into his book and the diary is cited by Brinkley at various places.

However; Sen. Kerry has not released the diary or entries from it that cover the times in dispute. It seems obvious to me that if one was keeping a war diary, natural things to note would be items like first command, first patrol, first action, first injury, etc. The fact that the entries were contemporaneous to the events would lend great credibility over recollections from 30+ years ago. Perhaps I'm cynical, but the refusal to release the diary (or germain excerpts) strikes me as very odd, assuming one wants to set the facts straight and get all the evidence on the table.