--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 7/3/05 9:18:15 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Sorry, but these allegations have been definitively > refuted. > > For example, regulations prohibit combatants from > nominating themselves for Purple Hearts. The only > person who can do so is the combatant's commander.
Actually, I was mistaken; not only can you not nominate yourself for a Purple Heart, your commander can't do so either--because you are *automatically entitled* to a Purple Heart for a wound sustained in combat. See: http://www.purpleheart.org/Awd_of_PH.htm > And the doctor who claims to have treated Kerry > is apparently misremembering, to put it politely. > The name of an entirely different physician is listed > on the treatment report. > > Of course the allegations were refuted! It wouldn't look good to > not challenge them. I was using the term "refuted" in the sense of "proven to be false." > All the procedures to apply for purple heart were followed to the > letter. Otherwise he could not have gotten them. As noted above, he did not "apply" for the Purple Hearts; he was *automatically entitled* to them. And there are questions > unanswered about who wrote the reports and initialed them.The BIG question was, > were the applications thoroughly investigated by the appropriate > witnesses? Apparently Vice Admiral R.A. Route, the Navy inspector general, thought so. > Kerry did Apply for three Purple Hearts No, as noted, you can't "apply" for Purple Hearts. You get them automatically. > and I would assume it would be very > likely he could have seen different doctors for each "wound." I was referring to the same wound. The doctor who claimed to have treated that wound was not the same as the doctor whose name was on the treatment report for that wound. > As for how common > it was to receive a Purple Heart for such minor wounds, I have > heard differently than you, that at that time one had to really > sustain a serious wound, not self inflicted,and lose time in the > field to be given that award. You've been misled, unfortunately, in a whole bunch of different respects. For example, Bob Dole's first Purple Heart was awarded for a self-inflicted wound, "the sort of injury the Army patched up with Mercurochrome and a Purple Heart," according to his own account. Self-inflicted wounds are eligible for Purple Hearts if they were sustained in combat and were not due to negligence or intentionally self-inflicted. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
