--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: <snip> > The statement from me that Kerry nominated himself for a purple heart was > inaccurate on my part. One is not nominated for Purple hearts. But one does > have to have the appropriate people sign off on the medical records to show a > wound in battle. The first doctor Kerry saw and the one that actually removed > his shrapnel laughed at Kerry when Kerry asked him to sign off for the medal > and refused to do so. He said he had seen worse wounds from a rose bush.
No, sorry, as I've told you twice now, the guy who *claims* to have treated Kerry's wound on this occasion was not the doctor who filled out and signed the treatment report. There is no record of the guy who makes this claim ever having treated Kerry. Also, the person who made the crack about the rose bush was not the doctor who claims to have treated him but rather Hibbard, his commanding officer at the time; and that was his recollection 30 years later. However, Hibbard claimed the wound was in Kerry's forearm, when it fact it was in his upper arm. Plus which, it's hard to imagine that if a piece of shrapnel had to be removed, as the treatment report states, that the wound would be no worse than a scratch from a rose bush. So Hibbard's testimony is suspect on this point; and it even conflicts with the account of the guy who makes the apparently false claim that he treated Kerry. > Perhaps Kerry found another doctor who would. And the two wounds I Spoke of were > self inflicted,albeit not intentionally, and not in combat with the enemy, > according to eye witnesses. The first wound *was* received in combat. The supposed eyewitness who claims it was self-inflicted has been discredited; he was not with Kerry that night and could not have seen what happened. Two crewmates who *were* with him and *did* see what happened both said it was not self-inflicted. But as Sparaig has noted with regard to the second (which was self-inflicted), a Purple Heart is awarded if the wound was received in action against the enemy, if not in actual combat. Self-inflicted wounds are eligible for Purple Hearts if they weren't *deliberate* and if they weren't due to negligence, as long as they were received in action against the enemy. The real point here is that all this crap about Kerry's Purple Hearts (indeed, just about every claim the Swift Vets have made) has been extensively looked into and found either to be false or in very serious doubt. You're parroting stuff that has long since been discredited (and you're not even getting a lot of *that* right), but whatever sources you're getting it from have not bothered to tell you this. 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/
