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"Did Kerry spend more than a day in the hospital for the purple hearts he received?

Should the Military be giving purple hearts to those who don't really get injured?"

The answer to your first question is, it doesn't matter.

The answer to your second question is, the military only awards Purple Hearts for injuries incurred as a result of enemy contact. No matter the extent of the injury.

A friend of mine, while in Iraq, was involved in an ambush of the convoy he was in. No one was killed, he was the only one injured. His injury was a broken nose caused by the steering wheel of his Humvee. A mortar destroyed the rear axle of his truck, running him of the road into a ditch. He received, and rightly deserved, a Purple Heart.

I also know that alot of Purple Hearts awarded during WWII were for relatively minor injuries incurred during combat.

Attacking Kerry's awards is pointless. Most likely he deserved them. Just because he is a liberal doesn't mean that he didn't serve bravely in Vietnam. His actions since have been liberal enough, or detestable enough, to draw criticism.

Leave his military record alone, it always ends up making us look stupid.

Leave his military record alone, it always ends up making us look stupid.

Sorry, Kerry's military record should be up for debate.

The partisan hacks in the DNC and liberal media made mince-meat out of Bush's National Guard service. Never mind the fact that he served and wanted to go to Vietnam via the Palace Alert program, never mind that he learned how to fly the F-102 Delta Dagger jet fighter plane. Nope, Bush didn't really serve he's not a hero like our Kerry hahaha...

In 1992 Effin Kerry told the GOP to leave Xlinton's draft-dodging alone, even though - as it is with Kerry now - ripe for debate. And believe it or not, the same DNC and media poked fun at Dan Quayle's guard service in the Indiana Guard.

- It is Kerry himself, who brought Vietnam into the Presidential election. Now that he's unable to defend himself he has to play the patriot card.

- Valid questions exist about Kerry's military record. There are threads here on FR in which one of soldiers who served with Kerry said that Kerry "wanted a quick ticket out of here." Kerry desperately wanted to get out of Vietnam so he can have a cushy desk job, and then...

- Lie in sworn Congressional testimony, April 22, 1971 - about Vietnam soldiers "shooting livestock for fun, and burning down villages." If Kerry served so "honorable", then why doesn't he release his military/medical records then?

Attacking Kerry's awards is pointless. Most likely he deserved them. Just because he is a liberal doesn't mean that he didn't serve bravely in Vietnam. His actions since have been liberal enough, or detestable enough, to draw criticism.

Leave his military record alone, it always ends up making us look stupid.

Normally I would agree with you but after the Bush AWOL fiasco brought on my his buddies at the DNC and the media, he deserves to be ridiculed. He also needs to present his FULL medical and military record to the public as Bush did.

If I believed he truly deserved the medals, I would be quiet. But I think he lied then as he lies now. He is a liar and cannot be trusted. He is MISLEADING the American people.

The Vietnam Vets are planning to march against this guy and his military record. Kerry, not I, made his Vietnam service an issue.

"doesn't mean that he didn't serve bravely in Vietnam"

Didn't know that purple hearts were awarded for any injury, regardless of how small.

I think it's OK to look in detail at his service since that is one of the issues he brings up quite a bit. He sets himself up as superior to Rove and Cheney, citing often that they did not serve.

As far as I understand it (and the information is very foggy), Kerry did request to come home after suffering only very minor injuries. Don't know how brave that was.