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Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command save one has stood with him.

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Mark Shields
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 25
Columnist
Writer
Weymouth
Massachusetts
Mark Stephen Shields
Command
John
Save
Sea
Everybody
Kerry
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Boat

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