According to Cluster, “Jack got very wild.” Some of Kennedy’s men, he related, “said he was crazy and would get them killed.” Cluster squashed Kennedy’s plan for a daylight gunboat raid up the Warrior River. But Custer observed that the Warrior River rescue on November 1–2, 1943 was a turning point in JFK’s life, signaling a “change of seriousness” that that made him “grow up emotionally.” Previously, according to Cluster, “We were kind of a happy-go-lucky bunch down there in the Solomons, ‘knights of the sea’ and all that crap, going out and attacking these large ships with all that glamour:
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