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To: Numbers Guy
"oh, Dole's first Purple Heart was for a minor possibly accidentally self-inflicted wound, he's just like Kerry"

True. But deserving of the PH because it occured in the "heat of battle." Kerry's self-inflicted wounds did not, so arguably he did not deserve the PH's, and thereby, his early ticket home.

50 posted on 08/23/2004 4:26:26 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: Shermy
"oh, Dole's first Purple Heart was for a minor possibly accidentally self-inflicted wound, he's just like Kerry"

True. But deserving of the PH because it occured in the "heat of battle." Kerry's self-inflicted wounds did not, so arguably he did not deserve the PH's, and thereby, his early ticket home.

Yes perhaps, if an American combat infantry officer can accidentally injure himself with self-inflicted German machine-gun fire while assisting a downed soldier. Look here for another version of the story. Those fools are using "self-inflicted" in response to the Swifties. They don't have a clue what it means.

173 posted on 08/23/2004 4:59:37 PM PDT by jimfree (We serve no whine before its time.)
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