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To: LindyBill who wrote (62260)	8/20/2004 10:40:02 PM
From: LindyBill	of 793916

Another point from Sensing. Kerry's shrapnel-filled leg John Kerry's senior campaign advisor, Ted Devine, said on FoxNews to Andrew Napolitano this afternoon that to this day John Kerry carries shrapnel in his leg from a wound suffered in Vietnam. Kerry said the same thing yesterday in his speech to a firefighters' union in Boston. Thirty years ago, official Navy reports and every person there documented my service in Vietnam and awarded me the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, and three Purple Hearts. Thirty years ago, this was the plain truth. It still is. And I still carry the shrapnel in my leg from a wound in Vietnam. Yet for none of the three injuries for which he was awarded a Purple Heart each did Kerry lose a single day of duty. Since Kerry has provably lied about sailing five miles into Cambodia on Christmas 1968, let me just say this about his claim of carrying shrapnel in his leg: I don't believe him. I am not denying he was wounded in the left thigh as this Navy message says he was, on Feb. 20, 1969. But I am skeptical that he still carries shrapnel there. Doctors leave wound-causing missiles in a patient's body only if it is located in a place so that removing it is more risky to the patient's health than leaving it there. This almost always means that the fragment or bullet is so close to (or perhaps within) a major organ or artery that removal surgery is itself potentially lethal. Possibly, but very unlikely, a small fragment might have been left in the leg because it wasn't worth the trouble to remove it. I call upon Sen. Kerry to release all medical records pertinent to all his wartime wounds or injuries. They are conspicuously absent from his campaign's index of other records. <crickets chirping> </crickets chirping> Yeah, I thought so.

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