[BIGLOOK]

I've been watching this brouhaha and understand Peach's point is political. However, as a vet, awards mean something. They are not souvenirs collected by requests to a paper pushing cohort.

Purple Hearts were determined by After Action Reports, reports made by a medical doctor as to the seriousness of the wound....or death. Scratches don't make the cut.

I served in I Corps, in Danang, same area as Murtha.

[Calpernia]

You tried making this point in post 24 of this thread.

It was ignored then.

[Peach]

I agree that medals mean something and that's why I've repeatedly said, let the vets handle this. Just like they did Kerry.

I wonder what the book Stolen Valor had to say about Murtha; they investigated people very thoroughly in that book as I recall, although I read it a few years ago and have forgotten a lot of the details.

And there's enough that Murtha is doing right NOW, like aligning himself with Code Pink, that I think we should focus on, imo.

[usmcobra]

peach is trying to silence anyone that thinks Muthra should come clean about his Purple Hearts, mostly by implying that to republicans shouldn't touch this issue and that by allowing Muthra to continue to spout off about Iraq whatever the consequences somehow he will embarass himself.

Personally I feel that long before that happens he will do an incredible amount of damage to the moral of our soldiers and to the will of the nation, and that something else must be done.