Purple Heart wound treated with Band-Aid: Doctor recalls hearing Kerry boast he'd be next JFK

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Wednesday, May 5, 2004

[JesseHousman]

..."some of his crewmen related that Lt. Kerry had told them that he would be the next JFK from Massachusetts."

Even then the horse-faced, ketchup stained imbecile had his sights set in the sewer with the rest of the bottom-feeding scavengers.

[Cagey]

....when I was in the army I got a real bad sunburn one time...

You could have been court-martialed for damaging government property. Or, so the story went.

[PeteePie]

The story he told was different from what his crewmen had to say about that night...

Is it not a crime to file a false report of action under these circumstances? I mean our intel back then might have mistakenly assumed an enemy presence when there wasn't one and diverted assets to oppose something that didn't exist, thus endagering the lives of GI's elsewhere who might have need of those same resources. I suppose it depends on the meaning of the word "is" is, or "crime," or "false," or, "liar," or "fraud," or "facade," or "loser," or "chicken sh!t," or...

[highlander_UW]

You could have been court-martialed for damaging government property. Or, so the story went.

Actually, I was threated with an article 15, but given that Kerry can get a purple heart for a lesser injury I thought to submit for one as well. It was in the line of duty...there was this major awesome party at a lake in Germany that ended up in events that become a semi-legendary shower scene including some of the unit "hotties".

[TC Rider]

Gee...when I was in the army I got a real bad sunburn one time...but I was never savvy enough to put in for a purple heart...I wonder if it's too late to submit for it now.

When I was in Basic Training, we were told that if we got a sunburn bad enough to go on Sick Call, we would be charged with destruction of Government Property.

[cyncooper]

then who was it that awarded it to him?

Nobody knows. Hibbard said at the press conference that Kerry asked him for it and Hibbard said "no". He said he learned later Kerry had received one but he had no idea who authorized it.

[highlander_UW]

When I was in Basic Training, we were told that if we got a sunburn bad enough to go on Sick Call, we would be charged with destruction of Government Property.

Maybe that's why they didn't charge me...I didn't miss any work. I was in much pain for a few days though.

[cyncooper]

Here's a link to a thread/article that mentions Hibbard's comment about how he knew Kerry was after a purple heart and Hibbard doesn't know how he ended up getting one.

I sure wish there was a transcript of this press conference. I note the swiftvet website has exceeded bandwidth today.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1129870/posts

[<1/1,000,000th%]

kerry was AWOL during Viet Nam.

[EGPWS]

Thanks for the link cyn.

[bigjoesaddle]

I know Kerry was privliged, but was his family in politics? Why was politics on his mind when so young? WHy were there so many pictures of Kerry in Vietnam? Whats the story?

[ZULU]

"The wound was covered with a bandaid. "

Too bad we can't handle Kerry as simply.

[cyncooper]

I know Kerry was privliged, but was his family in politics? Why was politics on his mind when so young?

Kerry's World: Father Knows Best

Excerpt:

From the start, Richard Kerry turned his oldest son into his foreign policy protégé. As Newsweek's Evan Thomas has written, "The Kerry dinner table was a nightly foreign-policy seminar. While other boys were eating TV dinners in front of the tube, [John] Kerry was discussing George Kennan's doctrine of containment." His father introduced the adolescent boy to such luminaries as Monnet and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Later, when he was at Yale, John Kerry traded letters with Clementine Churchill, Winston's wife.

As early as prep school, John Kerry showed signs that he shared his father's suspicions about America's cold war foreign policy. In a debate at St. Paul's in the late '50s, he argued that the United States should establish relations with Red China. During his junior year at Yale, he won a speech prize for an oration warning, "It is the specter of Western Imperialism that causes more fear among Africans and Asians than communism, and thus it is self-defeating." And, when he was tapped to deliver a graduation speech in 1966, he used the occasion to condemn U.S. involvement in Vietnam, intoning, "What was an excess of isolationism has become an excess of interventionism."

~snip~

[BluH2o]

The wound was covered with a band aid.

Purple Heart #1 for Kerry was a joke. He suffered more pain getting recent botox injections. Kerry is a first class phony.

[Future Snake Eater]

When I was in Basic Training, we were told that if we got a sunburn bad enough to go on Sick Call, we would be charged with destruction of Government Property.

Yeah, I heard the same thing. I'd pity the soldier who had such a d*ck CO or PL who would enforce such a thing...

[TC Rider]

Yeah, I heard the same thing. I'd pity the soldier who had such a d*ck CO or PL who would enforce such a thing...

In hindsight, I think it was a Basic Training type thing, reinforcing the idea that your Mama wasn't there to wipe your fevered brow, that the "I feel sick and don't want to train today" attitude would not be tolerated, etc.

[Fixit]