[kabar]

I wish the information would be portrayed properly. The Annenber Poitical Fact Sheet, a self-described non-partisan organization tries to discredit the SVBFT claims

"In any case, even a "friendly fire" injury can qualify for a purple heart "as long as the 'friendly' projectile or agent was released with the full intent of inflicting damage or destroying enemy troops or equipment," according to the website of the Military Order of the Purple Heart. All agree that rice was being destroyed that day on the assumption that it otherwise might feed Viet Cong fighters."

http://factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=231

[Intolerant in NJ]

The Annenber Poitical Fact Sheet, a self-described non-partisan organization...yes, but somebody posted on here a day or so ago that the "Fact" Sheet was actually run by a Seth somebody who has ties to Teddy Kennedy and other leftie causes - non-partisan my a@@ - anyhow it's up to the commanding officers immediately involved to determine if the PH should be awarded, and several of Kerry's I believe have said they wouldn't have approved of at least one of his had they known all the facts - I wonder what the "Fact" Sheet thinks about Kerrys' having lied about the rice incident, saying he was wounded by enemy fire and/or an exploding mine.......

[rolling_stone]

What we need to see is Kerry's own report maybe he didn't know friendly fire counted...so he described it as coming from a mine..

....Most surprisingly, John Kerry himself (while falsely reporting to the Navy and public that he suffered a shrapnel wound from a mine explosion so as to get a third Purple Heart and go home) reflected in his own journal that his buttocks' wound came, not from any mine but, rather, from a grenade tossed into a rice cache by himself or friendly troops (in the absence of any enemy fire). "I got a piece of small grenade in my ass from one of the rice bin explosions." Exhibit 15, Tour, at 313; see also Exhibit 15, Tour, at 317. "Kerry . . . also had the bits of shrapnel and rice extracted from his backside." See also the sworn statement of participants that there was no hostile fire (Exhibits 6, 7, and 10). It also should be noted that the rice extracted from Kerry's backside could hardly be the result of an underwater mine, as Kerry claimed in his operating report.