I thought it was from a nasty coffee burn during the Siege Of Dunkin Donuts.
Everything ends up on Free Republic when it would otherwise never be found. ROFL.
When I was in Viet Nam one of our lieutenants pinched his finger while opening a crate of flares. He put himself in for a purple heart. When our company commander (Lt Col) found out. HE cancelled it and permanently placed our lieutenant on the detail that burned the feces from the latrines. We had pilots and enlisted getting shot out of the sky every day so a remf was the lowest form of life.
He returned to duty the same day must have been very lucky...a friend got a Purple Heart in ‘Nam - was partying in a hootch that had pinup posters all over the walls and a mortar went off outside and shook the place up - someone noticed a dribble of blood coming from his forehead and it was from a tack that came out of the wall and stuck just into the skin of his forehead - almost dropped out by itself...he wasn’t proud of that medal because it “didn’t count” in his mind...
Bwahaha!