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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (288778)5/20/2006 7:28:35 PM
From: American Spirit  Read Replies (1) of 1578360
 
Quit joking about Purple Hearts. They represent wounds in combat. The rightwing makes fun of Max Cleland's three blown-off limbs, the shrapnel in Kerry's leg and his minor sliver wound which admittedly was treatable with a Bandaid. Apparently they have no respect for wounded combat heros who happen to be democrats.

But did you know that Bob Dole's second Purple Heart was also from a small sliver cut treatable with a Bandaid? And did know that since Dole retired not a single rightwing leader has even served in combat? Zero.

Point being, a combat hero should be respected and his medals never questioned just to make a jealous partisan smear. Bullets don't have brains and the margin between life and death in combat can be inches. Also, small slivers of shrapnel have been known to kill.
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