Posted on 08/23/2004 9:14:50 AM PDT by Pikamax
Kerry's thigh has shrapnel, records show Wound sustained in Vietnam War By and Michael Kranish, Globe Staff | April 24, 2004
WASHINGTON -- Senator John F. Kerry has shrapnel in his left thigh as a result of an injury sustained in the Vietnam War, according to medical records displayed by his presidential campaign yesterday. The records include notations for wounds for all three Purple Hearts, as well as for two bouts of pneumonia and "a minor non-specific urinary tract infection."
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The shrapnel still in Kerry's thigh stems from a Feb. 20, 1969, attack for which he was awarded his second Purple Heart. Kerry has said none of the three Purple Heart wounds cost him more than a couple of days of service. Kerry was able to leave combat six months early under Navy regulations that allowed a thrice-wounded sailor to depart Vietnam early.
Asked yesterday whether the thigh bothers him, Kerry told reporters on his campaign plane: "Only when it rains."
The Kerry campaign removed a 20-page batch of documents yesterday from its website after The Boston Globe quoted a Navy officer who said the documents wrongly portrayed Kerry's service. Edward Peck had said he -- not Kerry -- was the skipper of Navy boat No. 94 at a time when the Kerry campaign website credited the senator with serving on the boat. The website had described Kerry's boat as being hit by rockets and said a crewmate was injured in an attack. But Peck said those events happened when he was the skipper. The campaign did not respond to a request to explain why the records were removed.
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And lookey who has their name on the byline - Michael Kranish. He's been carrying water for Kerry for some time.
Not to worry, a couple of shots of Botox and he'll be right as rain.
All anyone needs to do is read Bob Dole's statement from yesterday (Sunday). He said it all, and this guy is a REAL HERO from WW2!! Check out Drudge and the New York Post article.
Only enlisted men get gonorrhea. Officers get nonspecific urethritis.
sounds like he spent most of his time in VN at the medics tent. Godd grief, what a sickly puke he is.
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Do they mean a "rice-wounded" sailor?
Tiny fragment of shrapnal...not very impressive or convincing. Maybe it's rice after all?
Kerry gets Purple Heart for 'drippy dic'. Its amazing he could find a prostitute who would service that horse face.
Here is the archived website from March 20, 2004.
http://web.archive.org/web/20040320183540/http://www.johnkerry.com/
Now, where are the records that he put online?
**(Kerry campaign removes 20 pages of documents from website)**
The question is "Why?"
Kerry went to Vietnam and got some undeserved Purple Hearts as well as the clap! What a hoot.
We have a whole gaggle of intrepid reporters looking for a scoop, hoping to score an interview with little miss love-you-long-time.
But as his campaign manager said "forty inches higher and it could have put his eye out"
"Me love you long time!"
VD is nothing to CLAP about. :o)
It's my understanding (and if I remembered which FReeepers said it, I'd ping them) that officers had UTI's and enlisted men had the clap.
Just so we all are aware, Dole's first Purple Heart wound was pretty minor and was self inflicted.
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