--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 7/2/05 7:22:01 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > All of Kerry's wounds needed more than > just a Band-Aid, however. > > According to one of the doctors Kerry saw for one of his "wounds", > he laughed at it. There was a small piece of metal, about the size > of a grain of rice, barely under the skin, which he removed with a > tweezers and placed a band aid over. He got it from firing a > mortar into a cluster of rocks and it ricocheted back on him, a > self inflicted wound. Another was, he threw a hand grenade into > a storage bend of rice, turned and ran, but not fast enough. When > the grenade exploded it peppered his ass with rice! Another self > inflicted wound! Both of which he nominated himself for Purple > hearts because nobody else would. And he got them! I don't > remember the details of his other purple heart but it was > almost as laughable as I recall. Remember, three Purple hearts > and you were "out of there"!
Sorry, but these allegations have been definitively refuted. For example, regulations prohibit combatants from nominating themselves for Purple Hearts. The only person who can do so is the combatant's commander. And the doctor who claims to have treated Kerry is apparently misremembering, to put it politely. The name of an entirely different physician is listed on the treatment report. Moreover, Purple Hearts were awarded to many Swift Boat personnel for wounds of similar severity to Kerry's, so any allegation that he didn't deserve the awards also calls in question the legitimacy of the awards to others. Full details and documentation here: http://swiftvets.eriposte.com/ Also: >From USA Today, 9/17/2004 Navy says Kerry's service awards were properly approved WASHINGTON (AP) The Navy's chief investigator concluded Friday that procedures were followed properly in the approval of Sen. John Kerry's Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart medals, according to an internal Navy memo. Vice Adm. R.A. Route, the Navy inspector general, conducted the review of Kerry's Vietnam-ear military service awards at the request of Judicial Watch, a public interest group.... "Our examination found that existing documentation regarding the Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart medals indicates the awards approval process was properly followed," Route wrote in the memo sent Friday to Navy Secretary Gordon England. "In particular, the senior officers who awarded the medals were properly delegated authority to do so. In addition, we found that they correctly followed the procedures in place at the time for approving these awards."... http://tinyurl.com/dcn8k To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
