--- In [email protected], "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > --- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > > Just remember the word casualty can mean any medical attention
> > given from a
> > > band aid to a death certificate.
>
> Is this true? Anyone?
Certainly: "a military person lost through death, wounds, injury,
sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action,"
according to my dictionary. ("Lost" here presumably means taken out
of action, but that isn't necessarily the case--a soldier who is
slightly wounded, gets bandaged up, and returns to action is still
counted as a casualty.)
"Casualty" is often used to mean deaths, however. You have to look
at the context if it's ambiguous. In this case, the context clearly
was deaths.
> I think John Kerry had a few of
> > those band
> > > aids and got purple hearts for them.
> >
> > You think?
>
> This sounds a lot like Swiftboat Veterans for Truth propaganda, all
> of which AFAIK was found to be lies.
Kerry's wounds weren't serious (only one of them required him to take
time off from duty), but Purple Hearts are awarded if the wound is
sustained during combat and requires any medical attention, no matter
how minor it may have been. All of Kerry's wounds needed more than
just a Band-Aid, however.
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