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*Applied bacitracin*....how shameful to even request/recieve a PH for such minor injuries....just as I figured!

I suspect Kerry may be the only person to receive a Purple Heart for action at Cam Ranh Bay. I was there the day he received his injury.

32 posted on 04/20/2004 6:05:43 PM PDT by js1138 (In a minute there is time, for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. J Forbes Kerry)

Kerry's statements on his first injury contradict each other:

Kerry to Tim Russert:

"The medical records show that I had shrapnel removed from my arm," he claimed. "We were in combat. We were in a very, very - probably one of the most frightening - if you ask anybody who was with me, the two guys who were with me, was probably the most frightening night that they had that they were in Vietnam."

Kerry's own description in Douglas Brinkley's "Tour of Duty":

The Dec. 2, 1968, mission behind what he has claimed to be his first Purple Heart was "a half-assed action that hardly qualified as combat." Indeed. Kerry was stationed with Coastal Division 14 at Cam Ranh Bay. At that time he piloted a small foam-filled boat, known as a Boston Whaler, with two enlisted men in the darkness of early morning. The intent, apparently, was to patrol an area that was known for contraband trafficking, but it was an undocumented mission. Upon approaching the objective point, the crew noticed a sampan crossing the river. As it pulled to shore, Kerry and his little team opened fire, destroying the boat and whatever its cargo might have been.

There's never been a report that the smugglers fired on Kerry's group, yet he pursued (relentlessly) a Purple Heart for what was obviously a non-combat incident.

108 posted on 04/20/2004 6:51:51 PM PDT by mass55th

Did Kerry fake his injuries?

256 posted on 04/20/2004 7:54:10 PM PDT by dalebert

Thank you for your service to our country, Sir. No politics should be involved with military service except to show service. Using it as a political tool or as an easy way out of combat while leaving more deserving fellow soldiers behind, is disgusting.

274 posted on 04/20/2004 8:04:47 PM PDT by New Perspective (Proud father of a 4 month old son with Down Syndrome)

I suspect Kerry may be the only person to receive a Purple Heart for action at Cam Ranh Bay. I was there the day he received his injury.

DISH! Please!

452 posted on 04/21/2004 1:05:55 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Dave Chapelle for UN Ambassador!)

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