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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< And Kerry is such a poor man isn't he - if he is so concerned with keeping jobs in the country then why are most of the HEINZ products done out of the country? >
But why are we talking about his money? What's that got to do with things? Isn't Bush rich too?
< But the bottom line - he is a very wealthy man.?
The commandment is against murder, not killing, it's a mistranslation that's haunted scripture since Henry VIII unfortunately.
Killing as part of war is NOT violative of the ten commandments, it isn't murder.
<<...and in direct proportion to the number of times the picayune has been dragged out, paraded around, and tried to be made into something other than what it is.>>
Sooo glad we finally agree on something, and looking forward to finally not having to re-read all that stupid garbage about
Renee ~~~
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