No question mark after this Kerrey.
May disagree with his party affiliation, but he is the real deal.
http://www.military.com/Content/MoreContent?file=ML_kerrey_bkp In the predawn hours, Kerrey led his team up a 350-foot cliff, splitting them into two groups for a coordinated attack on the Viet Cong camp. Instead of surprising the enemy, the SEALs were ambushed. Kerrey's leg was shattered by a grenade that threw him backwards. His Medal of Honor citation records what happened next: "Although bleeding profusely and suffering great pain, [Kerrey] displayed outstanding courage and presence of mind in immediately directing his element's fire into the enemy camp." Kerrey was barely conscious, but managed to maintain "calm, superlative" control as he directed the evacuation of all his men.
Kerrey spent the next eight months in a Philadelphia hospital bed, recovering from his injuries. He lost his right leg below the knee -- a fact known to few of his constituents who may have seen Sen. Robert Kerrey, D-Neb., complete marathons -- and endured more than a dozen operations. Fellow patients who became friends remember his stoicism in the face of surgery and rehabilitation, but Kerrey himself recalls a "weakened and bitter" young man.
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