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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Wayners who wrote (607501)8/21/2004 7:07:32 PM
From: Kevin Rose  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
You said:

Kerry applied for the purple heart at Grant Hibbards office and Hibbard said the injury does not merit the purple heart

I say Kerry never 'applied' for the Purple Heart. It is a byproduct of a combat injury report, if merited. You can't send it in yourself, so if Kerry got it, then one of his commanding officers must have sent it in. Maybe it was the one after Hibbard left, don't know.

Hibbard obviously has trouble with his memory. No disrespect, but he is older, and his conflicting statements and retractions show that he is not up to being in the media spotlight:

In the Globe story, Elliott is quoted as saying it was a "terrible mistake" to sign that statement:

George Elliott (Globe account): It was a terrible mistake probably for me to sign the affidavit with those words. I'm the one in trouble here. . . . I knew it was wrong . . . In a hurry I signed it and faxed it back. That was a mistake.

In his second affidavit, however, Elliott downgraded that "terrible mistake" to an "immaterial clarification." He said in the second affidavit:

Elliott (second affidavit): I do not claim to have personal knowledge as to how Kerry shot the wounded, fleeing Viet Cong.

factcheck.org

Which is why rehashing 35 year old events is so difficult.
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