[killerw]

Can somebody tell me how Max Cleland got to be a hero? Didn’t he blow his own legs off for a beer? Seem like I remember he jumped out of a helicopter to get a beer and dropped a hand grenade that blew his legs off.

[DBrow]

There are many casualties of a non-combat nature in any war.

He may have goofed up with a grenade or some similar story, but he was there in uniform, not in Canada or “not inhaling” in England, so I’d cut him a bit of slack.

Civvies rarely have the opportunity to muck up with a grenade.