Posted on 08/05/2004 9:22:21 AM PDT by Mia T
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Doctor Describes Kerry's Disputed Purple Heart Wound By Jim Hauser
In recent months, Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry has been touting his service in Vietnam with special reference to his three Purple Hearts. Because of his three battle wounds, Kerry was allowed to leave Vietnam before his tour of duty was finished. Kerry's failure to release all of his medical records regarding the Purple Hearts has led to speculation that at least one of the awards was given for a "bandaid" wound that was "engineered" by Kerry in order to gain early leave from Vietnam. Now the doctor who treated Kerry's wound is speaking out. National Review Online's (NRO) Byron York caught up with Dr. Louis Letson who treated Kerry's wound in December of 1968. Dr. Letson is now a retired general practitioner in Alabama. According to York's article, "[Dr.] Letson says he remembers his brief encounter with Kerry 35 years ago because 'some of his crewmen related that Lt. Kerry had told them that he would be the next JFK from Massachusetts.'" "I have a very clear memory of an incident which occurred while I was the Medical Officer at Naval Support Facility, Cam Ranh Bay," said Dr. Letson in the article. "John Kerry was a (jg), the OinC or skipper of a Swift boat, newly arrived in Vietnam. On the night of December 2, he was on patrol north of Cam Ranh, up near Nha Trang area," relates Letson. "The next day he came to sick bay, the medical facility, for treatment of a wound that had occurred that night." In the article, Doctor Letson says that the story Kerry told him was different than what the crew had said about that night. According to Kerry, they had been engaged in a fire fight, receiving small arms fire from on shore. He said that his injury resulted from this enemy action. "Some of his crew confided that they did not receive any fire from shore, but that Kerry had fired a mortar round at close range to some rocks on shore," recalled Letson. "The crewman thought that the injury was caused by a fragment ricocheting from that mortar round when it struck the rocks. That seemed to fit the injury which I treated." "What I saw was a small piece of metal sticking very superficially in the skin of Kerry's arm," Letson recalled. "The metal fragment measured about 1 cm. in length and was about 2 or 3 mm in diameter. It certainly did not look like a round from a rifle." According to Letson, he lifted the piece of metal out of the skin on Kerry's arm with forceps. "I doubt that it penetrated more than 3 or 4 mm," said Letson in the NRO article. "It did not require probing to find it, did not require any anesthesia to remove it, and did not require any sutures to close the wound." "The wound was covered with a bandaid," said Letson. "Not [sic] other injuries were reported and I do not recall that there was any reported damage to the boat." Byron York is the White House Correspondent for National Review Online.
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TV is a sound bite and image medium. To get your message to register, it has to be short and needs to be repeated over and over. If you try to cram too much info into a spot, peoples minds start to wander and their eyes glaze over. As it is, the ad produced by the SBVs is concise and to the point. People wishing more information, at least from this ad, can go to their website which is prominently displayed. For what it's worth, although I am not in the advertising industry, I have been suggesting, reviewing and approving multi million dollar TV and radio ads for twenty years. The rule of thumb is keep it short, keep it on point, make it relevant to the viewer, stoke their emotions if you can, and, repeat it over and over.
"I am NOT a war-criminal"...MUD
Power of TRUTH..!!
I agree.
I had these complex text graphics from other projects.
What I would suggest is this: not scrolling but flashing (fade in and out) very short excerpts culled from these detailed comments to coordinate with each of the swiftees images and voices.
OTOH, the argument could be made that the image of overwhelming data to support the claims, i.e., the medium, ACTUALLY IS THE MESSAGE, to borrow from McLuhan.
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Not if no one reads it. If a tree falls in the forest...
BTW - I'm not criticizing the work or inspiration, which is obviously well thought out and researched.
The way I imagine it:
The viewer watches the original ad content as the text scrolls. He catches snippets of the text, mostly the headlines, realizing that there are specifics to support the charges....
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