Kerry? The author has it pegged---his wounds were very, very minor and if that is revealed, Kerry will look petty, cowardly, and stupid.
Stephen Ambrose wrote about a man on the beach at D-Day who refused a purple heart for a shell fragment. The soldier felt it was superficial compared to the men on the beach who had legs and arms blown off who got the purple heart. But, that soldier was a man.
Too late...........