Again, you post this as if it is fact. His Commanding Officer says he lost NO duty days.
"There were an awful lot of Purple Hearts -- from shrapnel, some of those might have been M-40 grenades," said Elliott, Kerry's commanding officer. "The Purple Hearts were coming down in boxes. Kerry, he had three Purple Hearts. None of them took him off duty."
http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/061603.shtml
Why are you doing this?