The other two surviving Swift Boat captains who were there also do not recall being fired on.

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For years, she had tried in vain to make sense of that moment of farewell, but all she could recall was two heads bobbing before vanishing under the boat, the linked arms of two other friends, and a wave from Meimei, the youngest of the six, as she sank beneath the surface.

NEWYORKER: Alone