Wondering about his uncle’s repeated nocturnal attempts to hail passing PT boats in Ferguson Passage, Max Kennedy asked Keresey, “What would you have done if you had seen the lantern or heard the pistol?” Keresey replied, “We would have fired every gun and made sure anybody there was dead.” “Did Jack know that?” asked a surprised Kennedy. “He absolutely knew that,” acknowledged Keresey. “But we also would have checked, and then we would have found his body. And we’d know that he did it because his crew was still alive, and we’d go find them.” It was then that Max Kennedy absorbed the full
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