A. E. Norton

To the editor: In his otherwise fine article on “Jack” Elliot (“Jack Elliot: Remembering a ‘Swift Boater from Thomaston, Maine, WWF August 2008) Harry Gratwick notes that LCDR Elliot served on PBRs but he errs in calling them Swift Boats. That term-which Senator John Kerry, a former Swift Boat officer, unwittingly helped to popularize-was applied,

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