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'Trying to acquire Purple Hearts'
The Washington Times ^
| August 26, 2004
| Martin L. Fackler
Posted on 08/26/2004 5:17:05 AM PDT by renotse
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posted on
08/26/2004 5:17:05 AM PDT
by
renotse
To: renotse
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posted on
08/26/2004 5:21:06 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
To: renotse
...recalls the distasteful memories of having to deal with those few miscreants in DaNang.So he's comparing the miscreants in DaNang with the miscreant from Massachusetts. I guess I can deal with that.
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posted on
08/26/2004 5:23:30 AM PDT
by
ladtx
( "Remember your regiment and follow your officers." Captain Charles May, 2d Dragoons, 9 May 1846)
To: renotse
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posted on
08/26/2004 5:24:55 AM PDT
by
dennisw
(Allah FUBAR!)
To: dennisw
Read the whole thing. This one is GOOD!
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posted on
08/26/2004 5:27:08 AM PDT
by
dennisw
(Allah FUBAR!)
To: renotse
This purple heart given to Kerry when he had a hang nail removed during a pedicure
To: backhoe; Interesting Times
To: renotse
How I would love to see this get some play, but the MSM would shut down before they would let this out.
I hope some of our side has this story and spreads it around.
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posted on
08/26/2004 5:32:12 AM PDT
by
AlexW
To: renotse
'The Washington Times' deserves an award. . .a Freedom medal or somesuch; they deserve special recognition for their 'service rendered' to the public community; delivered as it is, with a committment to the truth.
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posted on
08/26/2004 5:34:28 AM PDT
by
cricket
(Don't Lose Your Head. . .Vote Republican)
To: renotse
It would be interesting to discover how many, of the millions of service men and women who served in Viet Nam, received 3 PH's and left early?????
To: renotse
"Mr. Kerry has made his Vietnam War record the centerpiece of his campaign. This demands a thorough objective evaluation of his medical records to determine if the three Purple Hearts that allowed him to leave Vietnam after only four months of duty were justified. This evaluation needs to be done before the election."
"Dr. Martin L. Fackler served as a combat surgeon in Vietman in 1968. A fellow of both the American College of Surgeons and the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, he also is an author, expert witness and lecturer on wound ballistics and surgery, and former director of the Wound Ballistics Laboratory at Presidio."
Dr. Fackler needs to be placed on our major networks to be heard. His credentials look impeccable.
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posted on
08/26/2004 5:35:10 AM PDT
by
jazzlite
(esat)
To: renotse
It just keeps getting better ...
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posted on
08/26/2004 5:37:55 AM PDT
by
spodefly
(Just put Ur name on this pre-nup and we can all hit the disco ...)
To: renotse
To: renotse
Good post. Only thing is Navy must be different from Army. Physicians did not write army personnel up for medals.
To: renotse
Here's where I think we need a new law. Anyone running for high office should publicly release all military records (if any) and all medical records. It should be out there for the people to peruse, if they are interested. If you want to occupy a high office, you should prepare to give up your privacy.
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posted on
08/26/2004 5:45:33 AM PDT
by
MizSterious
(First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
To: renotse
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posted on
08/26/2004 5:47:12 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(When it came to Intelligence, Kerry was absent)
To: renotse
the good stuff from the article ...
"In Part B, Paragraph 2, of the Army Purple Heart Regulation (600-8-22 of 25 February 1995), we find "the wound for which the award is made must have required treatment by a medical officer."
Dr. Louis Letson was entirely correct in turning down Lt. Kerry's first Purple Heart even if the wound had been the result of enemy action. Can there be any doubt that the tiny metal sliver could have been removed easily, and safely, by a Navy corpsman? It certainly did not "require" treatment by a medical officer (an MD)."
Even a five year old kid can pull out a splinter. Kerry is a joke.
To: renotse
As an exCorpsman at Charlie Med (in DaNang), I salute this Doctor for his great presentation of the facts...this kind of shit actually happened regularly in the facility.
Fortunately, (tinfoil hat 'on') I can honestly say it was seldom (if ever) from a wounded Marine or Navy Corpsman.
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posted on
08/26/2004 5:57:31 AM PDT
by
harpu
To: renotse
To: igoramus987
Dr. Martin L. Fackler served as a combat surgeon in Vietman in 1968. A fellow of both the American College of Surgeons and the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, he also is an author, expert witness and lecturer on wound ballistics and surgery, and former director of the Wound Ballistics Laboratory at Presidio Wow!
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posted on
08/26/2004 5:59:28 AM PDT
by
hawkaw
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