80 year ago, JFK heroically swam between Pacific islands to help save the crew of his torpedo boat that had been destroyed by a Japanese warship during World War II. On Wednesday, his daughter Caroline Kennedy recreated a portion her father’s feat.
Kennedy’s heroism as the commander of PT-109 helped set the foundation for a military and leadership record that would help get him elected the United States’ 35th president in 1960. On Wednesday, his daughter Caroline Kennedy, now US ambassador to Australia, recreated a portion her father’s feat, swimming about three quarters of a mile in some 30 minutes between two tiny palm-fringed islets in the Solomon Islands.
Kennedy was later awarded the Navy and Marine Corps medal “for his courage and leadership,” according to the presidential library account. In a speech on Kennedy Island on Tuesday, the late president’s daughter saluted her father as well as Gasa and Kumana, whose families were in attendance. “My son and I are honored to be able to thank you in person for what your fathers did 80 years ago,” she told them.
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