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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry

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To: JakeStraw who wrote (15214)4/16/2004 8:40:58 AM
From: tontoRead Replies (1) of 81568
 
This is why Kerry will not release his medical records.
Kerry has a serious problem here and is cornered,

Kerry's War Wound Called 'Fingernail Scrape'
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry insisted on being awarded his first Purple Heart in Vietnam even though his injury amounted to no more than a "fingernail scrape," his commanding officer at the time now says.

Retired Lt. Cmdr. Grant Hibbard tells the Boston Globe that he can still recall Kerry's wound, and that "it resembled a scrape from a fingernail," the paper said.

"I've had thorns from a rose that were worse," Hibbard insists.

Still, the former Navy man remembered that Kerry insisted on receiving a Purple Heart for the wound he said was incurred during a Dec. 3, 1968 skirmish with Viet Cong near Cam Ranh Bay.
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