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I am not sure what all three purple hearts were for, but my impression is that none appeared to have left shrapnel in Kerry's body, nor was there any "spilled blood". Can anyone fill me in on the exact nature of the three purple hearts.
1 posted on 08/14/2004 10:38:41 PM PDT by poundsand
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He's carrying rice fragments in his back side.


2 posted on 08/14/2004 10:39:16 PM PDT by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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Today he's a war hero. Tomorrow his military service will be off limits. I try not to hate these people down to the pitch-like marrow of their yellowed bones. It's hard.

MM


4 posted on 08/14/2004 10:49:26 PM PDT by MississippiMan (Americans should not be sacrificed on the altar of political correctness.)
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A piece of a fondue fork stuck in his hand to go with the silver spoon lodged under his tongue.


5 posted on 08/14/2004 10:50:27 PM PDT by Lance Romance
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I thought he was hit with rice fragments?


6 posted on 08/14/2004 10:50:50 PM PDT by Andy from Beaverton (I only vote Republican to stop the Democrats)
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"He's talking about a man who still carries shrapnel in his body. He's talking about a man who spilled his blood for the United States of America."

Well, there may have been a few spots on Kerry's ass from where the doctor had to dig the rice out.
Who's Edwards talking about? Who spilled blood?

10 posted on 08/14/2004 10:57:30 PM PDT by concerned about politics ( Liberals are still stuck at the bottom of Maslow's Hierarchy)
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Is Kerry still carrying shrapnel?

Most likely in a jar to remind him of the grat con he pulled off.

11 posted on 08/14/2004 10:57:39 PM PDT by TBP
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dont know about shrapnel, but his wife is like an open wound.


13 posted on 08/14/2004 10:59:03 PM PDT by isom35
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He can't be talking about Kerry.
We have no idea what Kerry is. All we know is what a lying politician would say to get elected.
I'd like some proof Kerry was a hero, please. Otherwise, I don't believe a word he says. Why should I? Why should anyone?
15 posted on 08/14/2004 11:01:58 PM PDT by concerned about politics ( Liberals are still stuck at the bottom of Maslow's Hierarchy)
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To bad Julia Child died yesterday.

She could have cooked Kerrys butt into a nice rice pudding.

18 posted on 08/14/2004 11:18:38 PM PDT by smoothsailing (Eagles Up !!!!)
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"He's talking about a man who still carries shrapnel in his body. He's talking about a man who spilled his blood for the United States of America."

This is an insult to men like my father, whose bodies were peppered with shrapnel - my father, whose entire life was shadowed by the threat of paralysis from shrapnel being lodged so close to his spine.

Somebody please explain to Senator Edwards the difference between shrapnel all over your body and rice up your ass.

19 posted on 08/14/2004 11:27:44 PM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (Some of my best friends are white, middle-class males.)
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"He's talking about a man who spilled his blood for the United States of America."

He must have knocked over his blood donor bag.

20 posted on 08/14/2004 11:31:09 PM PDT by scott7278 (Kerry/Edwards: More Affordable Hair Care for America)
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Didn't they remove the shrapnel with a pair of tweezers?? And I'm sure the rice in his behind has dissolved by now.(LOL..I can't believe we are discussing this)


21 posted on 08/14/2004 11:33:52 PM PDT by CaraM
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..I forgot to add: The tiny fragment of shrapnel (removed with tweezers) produced one purple heart, while the rice in the butt was a different event

...and did I mention all that happened in Vietnam?? or was it Cambodia?? It's seared into my mind...wait...it all happened when Kerry jumped into the water under fire to rescue one, no, FOUR drowning sailors, no, one of them was a Green Beret (who ate a cookie in the back of the boat when the mine went off)...and the rescue happened under orders from President Nixon in 1968...oh..wait...1969, or thereabouts...

22 posted on 08/14/2004 11:42:23 PM PDT by CaraM
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He drags his ass like he's carrying.


25 posted on 08/14/2004 11:47:46 PM PDT by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job tell you how to run your life.)
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Perhaps they were from his secret mission?


26 posted on 08/14/2004 11:48:20 PM PDT by struwwelpeter
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Did Johnny Edwards go to sKerry's penthouse to see the x-rays of the shrapel which tastefully grace the walls? Did he see the bandage collection of spilt blood?

Just when did he get that shrapnel? Christmas in Cambodia 1968--or was it 1969? Whip out those diaries and qoute us some passages.

27 posted on 08/14/2004 11:48:25 PM PDT by Ruth A.
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It may not be rice - reports indicate the rice explosion may have included metal shrapnel as well. According to Kerry's medical records, the piece is 1/4 the size of a BB. They left it in because cutting to remove it would have caused more trauma than leaving it in.


29 posted on 08/15/2004 12:04:43 AM PDT by Mr Rogers
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Apparently Kerry does have a piece of shrapnel in his leg according to his doctor. I'm not sure from what 'engagement' - probably PH#2 since neither first (splinter he somehow managed to keep barely in his arm) nor third (the rice and possibly bruise on his arm).

Now for the rest of the story ... Kerry has claimed that the shrapnel caused him pain 'for years' - however (as reported in the Boston Herald sometime around the time when Kerry's doctor was first in the news late April or beginning of May '04) that 'shrapnel is approximately 2mmx2mm i.e. about the size of this " quote sign. It wasn't removed at the time because an incision to remove it would have caused more damage than the puncture itself.

My question is: just what sort of munition makes shrapnel so small? Kerry's booboos always seem to derive from truly miniscule shrapnel. I think the grains of rice in his a$$ were the largest things to ever hit him. If real shrapnel was truly that small, it makes sense that their numbers would be much greater (it takes an awful lot of splinters to make up one exploding munition) and one would expect several such punctures.

Kerry is full of shrap


33 posted on 08/15/2004 6:35:24 AM PDT by dougd
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Edwards said. "He's talking about a man who still carries shrapnel in his body. He's talking about a man who spilled his blood for the United States of America."

Crooked Mega-Shyster Edwards' lips are moving and we all know what that means.

Hey Ambulance Chaser!! Why doesn't your boy release his medical records, so we can read all about the "shrapnel in his body" (there of course isn't any) and the precise amount of blood he spilled (zero, zorch, nada, goose-egg).

36 posted on 08/15/2004 6:44:38 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (Free Republic is 21st Century Samizdat)
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He's talking about a man who still carries shrapnel in his body

Should trigger airport security...but..he don't fly commercial, does he?

39 posted on 08/15/2004 9:49:55 AM PDT by JimVT (I was born a Democrat..but then I grew up)
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