[Zoomie1]

You ever hear of the Dog Days of August? Well in Vietnam the Dog Days of August run about year around. almost any penetrating injury if it is not properly treated becomes infected. Ever hear of cavernous sinus thrombosis probably not. One of my patients popped a zit between his eyes on the bridge of his nose. Apparently some of the exudate (pus) went the wrong way. Several days later he was told by his CO to go on sick call. He delayed five or six hours and when he was brought into the hospital he was running a 105 degree fever. Two days later he passed away from secondary bacterial meningitis. That zit killed him. Kerry's wound involved the removal of a piece of shrapnel don't know how big nor how deep it penetrated do you? It penetrated and thats what makes a potentially serious wound out of what may also have been little more than a splinter. The point is in Vietnam where men were exposed to warm humid conditions and where keeping wounds clean is a matter of life and death until you know the size of the shrapnel and whether the wound was a scratch probably not if shrapnel was involved you can't judge whether the wound was real or like Frank Burns (egg) shell fragment in the eye was a laugher or not.

[Riley]

Fair enough. My service was in drier climates, I wouldn't have bothered the Corpsman over a wound if I could continue to function without doing so. The closest to those climatic conditions that I operated in was training in the South in a muggy summer. Had a serious run-in with a nasty pile of razor wire. I guess I was lucky- it healed up without medical attention.

I am convinced at this point however, that Kerry's every action was methodically and cynically scripted to advance his future political career. I do not trust him in any way.