--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 7/3/05 9:30:38 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > YOu can't get yourself a purple heart. It's an automatic award. Look > it up. Hint: use google "purple heart site:.mil" so you only get > official military documents about it, not what some > rightwing/leftwing website has to say. > > > > > No, you can't go out and buy one. There is definitely a procedure to be > awarded one and that procedure involves a chain of command. There has to be an > event to cause the wound, in combat ,
Nope. Can be a result of terrorist action, or during action against the enemy. >not self inflicted, Self inflicted qualifies as long as it was not *deliberately* self- inflicted and was during action against the enemy (or perhaps during terrorist action). medical attention, > with lost time, Not lost time. ONly attention by an official medical officer (medic, doctor, etc -enlisted vs officer doesn't apply here). nomination, investigation, and paper work passed up a chain > from one desk to another. If one were an officer and knew the procedures one > could work his way around them by falsifying or embellishing information used > in the procedure. Kerry was in that position, was seeking to become the next > JFK from Ma. I'm not sure if he had been to law school at that time but was > no dumby and knew what he needed to get out of there and embellish his > political future. So you're now saying, specifically, that Kerry falsified documents? 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/