Whatever, I've just finished reading most of the thread and scanning what I didn't read thoroughly and I want to commend you for the providing this information and doing such a masterfull and good job of debating one against a pack of counterparts. I have two comments/questions to add which came to mind as I read.
1. Possibly Kerry's crew were grateful to him for keeping them in the safety zone along with himself away form possible firefight when his boat fled the scene.
2. Likely his own crew and himself became rather close friends as coombodies and continue to be, so was this a factor in their support of him? Were they paid off?? Nobody knows, of course.
3. Do his fellow crew members want on his
good side in case he does win election or do they have an underlying fear of what may happen to them if they do not support him. Possibly they are thinking of all the folks who disappeared among the living who were close to Clinton who just happend to be potential unfriendly witnesses to his and Hillary's shenanagins.
Please understand I'm not making any charges, but thinking aloud about some possibilities which may factor in as to why sooooo many who weren't in the boat but quite apprised have a very different story than some of those with him. And while I'm at it, Whatever, did I remember you saying 17 of those close to him are dead? Were they killed in the war or do you have any idea what happened to them?