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On Saturday, Jan. 17, two days before the caucuses, Mr. Kerry learned that Jim Rassman, a onetime Army Green Beret, deputy Los Angeles County sheriff and amateur orchid grower, had called his campaign from his home in Oregon the day before and asked to campaign for Mr. Kerry, who had saved his life on March 13, 1969, in the Bay Hap River in Vietnam but had not seen him since.
That afternoon in Des Moines, Mr. Kerry squeezed Mr. Rassman's broad, smiling face with both hands, as if it were a baby's. Mr. Rassman, a registered Republican, dissolved into sobs and they embraced. "I figure I probably owe this man my life," he said. Mr. Kerry struggled to control his emotions.
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I wish I could have seen that...
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