Kerry lied to get purple heart?

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Registered: 06-17-2004
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.

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Registered: 08-15-2004
Thu, 08-19-2004 - 7:13pm
The payroll taxes are important here. Anybody who works pays those taxes. And by the way, a couple earning $5.00 an hour each are over the poverty level and do not qualify for some of those programs mentioned here. OR they're put at the bottom of a very long waiting list.

In any event, people need to get their heads around the fact that every single worker, even illegal immigrants, are paying taxes that are being used to fund government expenditures TODAY.

"Currently, payroll tax collections exceed benefit payments, and will continue to do so until 2018 when the program will spiral into annual deficits.

Surpluses credited to the trust fund are not saved or invested. Rather, they are immediately borrowed by the government and spent on other priorities or used to pay down debt. All that remains in the trust fund are government IOUs."

http://www.mysocialsecurity.org/quickfacts/

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