It's true that Kerry managed to blow up a rice heap that exploded into his butt. So, OK, he got wounded. The part people have trouble with is the dork's claim that he sailed up into Cambodia with Martin Sheen to terminate Marlon Brando.
You know my dad received a purple heart during the second world war...he was hit with shrapnel from Japanese airplanes straffing the deck of the ship he was on...His wounds were sufficiently bad that he was sent back to the states and it took him two years of rehab before he was released from Twenty Nine Palms....He didn't receive anything other than a single pruple heart for his valor and he was retained in the service until after the war in the Pacific was finished...So I am sick to death of hearing about John F'in Kerry's valor and bravery the guy is a loon and a traitor...period