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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As for patriotism I stated that everyone in America is a patriot. Once again please do not make up things that I have not said. Please reread and actually let it sink in this time before you decide to jump to extremes.
"That is the attitude of every military person I've ever talked to." Now who is trying to classify people? Hmmmm practice what you preach.
Tell me, back in 1971, when Nixon was desperate to smear Kerry, why didn't all these allegations come out then? Where were the guys saying John Kerry was lying about his Bronze Star? Where was the doctor saying the purple hearts were all self-inflicted? How do these guys all have such different memories now then they did then?
Just unreal. And people wonder why Democrats are so angry.
"He made a Big mistake, he bombed Iraq without enough information and/or with the wrong information." Last time I checked we were hit first - remember the Towers. What we did was simply strike back at those who decided that they would have the balls to attack America.
FOI doesn't cover private military or medical records. Kerry has to sign a release for them to be made available.
Renee ~~~
Renee ~~~
You are in the military and you think we "simply struck back at those who decided that they would have the balls to attack America". I can hardly believe what I'm reading. Don't you know that Iraq has no more connection to A.Q. than any other country in the Middle East, perhaps less so. UNBELIEVABLE!!!
Looking back at how things were handled will not change the here and now. We have to focus on what we can do to prevent further attacks. Is it to sit back and not be preemptive - only time will tell. Is it to attack - that too only time will tell. Many wars are thought of as being futile or useless, but to those that they help they are thought of as necessary.
You will pick who you feel is right as will I - that is why every vote counts.
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