Just so we all are aware, Dole's first Purple Heart wound was pretty minor and was self inflicted.
Yeah and Dole himself has said so. Big difference in character there. Dole doesn't think he deserved that first purple heart. If Kerry had been half as modest as Dole, and not tries to turn himself into a faux Sgt. York, nobody would have been questioning his war record.
Guess Cleland didn't have a good enough publicist.