Even Rassman made some allusion the other day about not knowing that the buttock injury was part of his purple heart.
Yes, you're right. Here's what the Swifties' lawyers' letter to the tv station managers said about it:
"This "brown rice" incident with rice/shrapnel lodged in Kerry from his own grenade is also recounted by James Rassman, a Kerry supporter and "the no man left behind" on page 105 of John F. Kerry: The Complete Biography By The Boston Globe Reporters Who Know Him Best, by Michael Kranish, Brian C. Mooney, and Nina J. Easton (New York: Public Affairs, 2004) (the "Kranish book")."