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Kerry's C.O. Says First P.H. Was Not Authorized by Him
FOX NEWS ^ | 4/28/2004 | self

Posted on 04/28/2004 9:59:40 AM PDT by kellynla

John Kerry's commanding officer was just interviewed on Fox News. According to Lt. Commander Grant Hibbard when Kerry showed up in front of him requesting a Purple Heart, Hibbard saw that he had a "scratch"(Hibbard's word) on his forearm. And because, according to Hibbard, there was no report of enemy action on Kerry's patrol that day and the "scratch" did not receive medical attention from a medical officer, Hibbard declined Kerry's request for a Purple Heart.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; granthibbard; hibbard; kerry; kerryliar; kerrythecoward; medalgate; medalrequest; militaryrecord; purpleheart; unearnedpurpleheart; warhero
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To: kellynla
Ha ha- I remember that one! Frank Burns' Purple Heart request due to "shell fragment" in the eye- but it was an egg shell!

Good stuff.
21 posted on 04/28/2004 10:20:52 AM PDT by Gefreiter
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To: kellynla
In case anyone wonders, I'm the one who added it to Breaking News. Perhaps it doesn't belong. I don't know.
22 posted on 04/28/2004 10:22:02 AM PDT by Petronski (I'm not always cranky.)
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To: finnigan2
If you read the post, you'll see that I was relaying the information that had just been revealed on the television...gezzzzzz
23 posted on 04/28/2004 10:22:32 AM PDT by kellynla (U.S.M.C. 1/5 1st Mar Div. Nam 69&70 Semper Fi http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com)
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To: kellynla
This story is dated Fri, April 16, 2004. That's a "lifetime" ago.
24 posted on 04/28/2004 10:23:09 AM PDT by upchuck (Message to Senator John F'ing sKerry: Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.)
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To: upchuck
Again, folks...my post is about the television interview with Hibbard today about 15 minutes ago...
25 posted on 04/28/2004 10:25:55 AM PDT by kellynla (U.S.M.C. 1/5 1st Mar Div. Nam 69&70 Semper Fi http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com)
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To: kellynla
Good grief.

Going to be checking into this one...
26 posted on 04/28/2004 10:26:04 AM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" -- Abraham Lincoln)
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To: kellynla
I'm confirming the thread. I just heard the guy say on FoxNews that he considered it just a scratch and did nothing about it.

I think he said something about Kerry maybe going on his own later to a dispensary. In other words, he has no idea who approved the PH.

He used the word "scratch." I think the direct quote is that "it was just a scratch."
27 posted on 04/28/2004 10:29:22 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army and Proud of It!)
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To: rwfromkansas
See #27
28 posted on 04/28/2004 10:30:04 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army and Proud of It!)
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To: lilylangtree
My favorite part of the interview was when he said all his other men denied taking any enemy fire that day. So not only did Kerry get a PH for a scratch, he got it for a scratch he got without taking any enemy fire.
29 posted on 04/28/2004 10:30:59 AM PDT by TheLurkerX ("When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro..." Hunter S. Thompson)
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To: rwfromkansas
Yep, I thought this whole business of Kerry receiving 3 PH's in less than four months without spending one night in a hospital sounded very fishy to me.

I don't Kerry will last through the DNC convention...
Now warming up in the bullpen...from NY...Senator Klintoon
30 posted on 04/28/2004 10:31:14 AM PDT by kellynla (U.S.M.C. 1/5 1st Mar Div. Nam 69&70 Semper Fi http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com)
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To: smiley
UN.freakin'.believeable....Kerry probably scratched himself on the forearm.....

It seems that Kerry had a masterplan to milk the Vietnam "experience" for political purposes since Day One.

Getting a purple heart for a scratch is using the system to get out early and continue his political ambitions. After three of these "injuries," he was free to quit early.

Whether the other two purple hearts are justified or not, I don't know. Nevertheless, I suspect that Kerry was committed to rack up three purple hearts, even if he had to injury himself.

31 posted on 04/28/2004 10:32:18 AM PDT by george wythe
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To: kellynla
Thanks for the report from us stuck in a cubicle.
32 posted on 04/28/2004 10:33:10 AM PDT by McGruff (It's payback time!)
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To: kellynla
The only kind of 'soldier' that would REQUEST a PH is one that has plans after their "soldiering" days are over and wants their C.V. packed with politically useful tidbits.

Veteran or not, Kerry is a poser and a fraud.
33 posted on 04/28/2004 10:34:04 AM PDT by spodefly (A 7mm intellect in a .284 caliber world, or something.)
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To: kellynla
Kerry knew about the three PHs and out policy. I go back a long way but have never heard of that policy before, from anyone, except Kerry.
34 posted on 04/28/2004 10:34:20 AM PDT by cynicom
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To: kellynla
Kerry received his first "injury" just 24 hours after he arrived in Vietnam. It seems he had no intentions of staying any length of time. So he had to figure out a way to get the *ell out of their.
35 posted on 04/28/2004 10:34:51 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: kellynla
John F. Kerry? More like John F. Klinger.
36 posted on 04/28/2004 10:35:09 AM PDT by randog (Everything works great 'til the current flows.)
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To: kellynla
Kerry is so Lame.

Ollie North was on Hannity yesterday, He spoke of a young Marine who had *EARNED 3 Purple hearts in Iraq and was going back for some more.

37 posted on 04/28/2004 10:35:14 AM PDT by No Blue States
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To: kellynla; All
Hence the winner of the Frank Burns Purple Heart Award.
38 posted on 04/28/2004 10:35:48 AM PDT by KevinDavis (Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
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To: kellynla
I wonder if this it what kerry has in mind as an 'exit' strategy for Iraq.
39 posted on 04/28/2004 10:35:55 AM PDT by new cruelty
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To: kellynla
And because, according to Hibbard, there was no report of enemy action on Kerry's patrol that day and the "scratch" did not receive medical attention from a medical officer, Hibbard declined Kerry's request for a Purple Heart.

LOL! This is good.

40 posted on 04/28/2004 10:36:03 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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