Hear what a hero Kerry is. He refused surgery. Because we all know he's such a tough guy.
Kicking off two days of pro-Kerry events across Pennsylvania on the eve of expected new anti-Kerry TV ads sponsored by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth group, Del Sandusky said he personally witnessed the battle action for which Kerry received Silver and Bronze stars and two of his three Purple Hearts.
"He deserved every one of his medals," Sandusky, a retired computer repairman who drove Kerry's boat for nearly three months in early 1969, told a news conference at Pennsylvania's Capitol. "He carries a piece of shrapnel in his leg because he refused to be operated on and (spend) a couple of days in the hospital and leave us on the boat" without a commanding officer.
"I was there when he got wounded. I saw the blood. I don't care what Dole said," Sandusky said, referring to suggestions by Republican former Sen. Bob Dole and other Kerry critics that the Democratic presidential candidate received an early exit from combat for "superficial wounds."
A bit of a stretch on either the reporter's part or Sandusky's part to say Sandusky "drove Kerry's boat for nearly three months" according to Unfit, Sandusky was on PCF 94 and Kerry took charge the last day or two of January after Peck was injured. Kerry's last action was March 13 and gone by March 17 seems to me this is less than two months. Maybe no big deal but another stretch of the truth.