"Larry Smith" > wrote in message
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> 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.
>
Versus those wonderful medals W earned protecting the Louisiana contingency
going to the polls during his stint in the military....but wait, where are
all the men who served with him?