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Before he was Senator Kennedy or President Kennedy, JFK was Lieutenant Kennedy of PT-109 (PT = “Patrol Torpedo”) in the Pacific during WWII. On August 1, 1943 Kennedy’s boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer. Two of Kennedy's crewmen were killed immediately but Kennedy was able to keep the rest of his men safe behind enemy lines. The event made Kennedy famous and in 1946, at the urging of his father, Kennedy parlayed his hero status into a Massachusetts Congressional seat. This week’s
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