Pan Ohco (I believe) wrote:

>Did Kerry spend any time in hospital with his three Purple Hearts?

Don't know about the second and third but the definitive answer
to the first is: NO. It was a non-penetrating shrapnel wound that
was dressed with bacitracin. He never even saw a real doctor,
never mind the inside of a hospital, and he, himself, applied
for the purple heart. It was granted under his assurance that
his wound - though "possibly self-inflicted" - was gained under
enemy fire. Enemy fire that neither of the two men in the boat
with him will swear was present.

Kerry trivialized the serious wounds incurred by thousands of
veterens, and he did it to try to push up his score and get an
early rotation - which he did, four months, far less than the
year and a half most soldier served in Vietnam.

Of course this is all moot, isn't it? I mean, he did return
those metals to the gov't, didn't he? He threw them over the
fence at the White House, didn't he? So he doesn't have them
any more, right? Suuuuuuuuurrrrrrreeeeeee.

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