[Cboldt]

You are describing the 'Bronze Star' incedent?

I checked the basics of Kerry's medals. They line up as:

• Dec 2, 1968 - Purple Heart (Mortar fragment?)
• Feb 20, 1969 - Purple heart (5000 lbs of rice in a sampan, 14,000 rounds of .50 caliber expended by the boat crews)
• Feb 28, 1969 - Silver Star (Citation recites routing a score of Viet Cong by storming the beach.)
• Mar 13, 1969 - Bronze Star and Purple Heart (the mine in the river incident, pulling Rassman from the water, etc. The Bronze Star citation is covered by two letters from the Navy, 7 years apart. One signed by Zumwalt, the other by Lehman.)

[greasepaint]

Bronze star incident, did Kerry's boat detonate a mine
(after another boat was damaged by a mine)

[Chuzzlewit]

I wonder how many other Vets can say they have a medal, for pulling someone from the river...