Kerry lied to get purple heart?
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| Tue, 08-10-2004 - 5:33pm |
The records should be able to shed some light on this if Kerry chooses to open them to the public.
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/28856.htm
'Larry Thurlow, the skipper of a boat trailing Kerry's, says in the book that he saw Kerry suffer a buttocks wound earlier that day in 1969 when he was hit by fragments from his own grenade while trying to destroy a Viet Cong rice cache.
"He dishonestly transferred the time and cause of the injury to coincide with the action later in the day and claimed that the cause of the injury was the mine exploding during the action," the book claims.
In Kerry's version of the incident, he says a mine struck his swift boat - wounding him in the buttocks and arm.
Kerry maintains he braved enemy fire from both shores to race to the bow of the boat and pluck Rassman, who had fallen overboard, out of the water.
But, the book says, "Many participants in the incident state that neither weapons fire nor a mine explosion occurred near Kerry during the incident.
"Unless one believes in the amazing coincidence that Kerry got two wounds in the same place on the same day, he lied to get the Purple Heart," the authors say.
Rassman is backing Kerry's presidential candidacy and he supports Kerry's version of the rescue.
Renee ~~~

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Sonali
Just imagine if George had been awarded a purple heart. Imagine if Kerry had a poor academic record and couldn't remember exactly what he did in the National Guard, or if he'd used cocaine, Imagine if Teresa had killed someone with her car. Imagine if Kerry had sent our military to war and bombed Iraq because his vice-president told him to.
Just imagine........
Claim:
John Kerry's Official Naval Records (over 30 documents)
http://www.johnkerry.com/about/john_kerry/military_records.html
John Kerry's After-Action Combat Reports
http://www.johnkerry.com/about/john_kerry/combat_reports.html
The Command History for Coastal Division 11 for 1969
http://www.johnkerry.com/about/john_kerry/command_history.html
If he doesnt want to release them, then he has to come to the realization that there are those that will question the details behind those medals. I say, release the entire record, and shut the people up that are trying to criticize him.
Do some of your own research regarding how swift boats operate. In a nutshell:
Swift boats can only hold 4-5 men at a time. They're like tanks. They all work in a group. Thus, the people on the boats that work the same area become very close and they see the same action.
The NYT is being disingenious it its assertions above.
Why is Kerry so afraid of these Swift Vets? What is he trying to hide? Why is he calling all these vets liars? Why did he sic lawyers on them?
If you will remember, Kerry spent roughly 120 days of service in Viet Nam. He has spent the rest of his life denouncing that war, proclaiming atrocities being carried out that can not be verified, villified ALL Viet Nam vets and now has the gall to run as a supposed *war hero*.
He has decided to make the Viet Nam war the big issue here. I want him to deal with the fall-out. Heh-heh-heh.
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