THE NEW YORK TIMES has a lengthy analysis of Kerry’s antiwar days, but Tom Maguire notes that once again the dates of Kerry’s military service are wrong:

Does it change the story to say that Mr. Kerry, while still in the Naval Reserve, ran in an anti-war caucus?

Does it change the story to say that Mr. Kerry, the 26 year old Navy Lieutenant, had arranged a private meeting with North Vietnamese and Vietcong emissaries to the peace talks?

Maybe not much. But one might hope that both the Kerry campaign and the “All the News” folks would be able to report accurately the basic facts of Kerry’s military service.

And we wonder why this confusion persists – we seem to be back to “Kerry never said he was Irish” with this one.

Well, it’s better than the Klan mistake, anyway.

UPDATE: More here from Capt. Ed Morrissey.