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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Nikole Wollerstein who wrote (41386)8/7/2004 10:04:41 PM
From: SiouxPalRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 81568
 
Nikita tell us how many fire-fights you have been in.
I'll be here asking you that question until you answer it.
You should not ask others about anything until you post your answer.
I call you a weasel. I call you a coward.

Sioux



To: Nikole Wollerstein who wrote (41386)8/7/2004 11:24:05 PM
From: bentwayRespond to of 81568
 
If you question Kerry's Purple Heart, you question EVERY Purple Heart awarded to every soldier in all wars. My father, a navigator in the Army Air corps in WWII was awarded a Purple Heart for a tiny piece of shrapnel in his ass. He didn't think anything of it. Everybody who got any kind of wound in combat got a Purple Heart, whether for a tiny piece of shrapnel, or getting a limb blown off, you get the same Purple Heart. That's how it works.
What awards did Bush get 10,000 miles from combat in the TANG? If he was even there.



To: Nikole Wollerstein who wrote (41386)8/7/2004 11:50:53 PM
From: WaynersRespond to of 81568
 
Kerry is a complete fraud: Report from his doctor,

"Some of his crew confided that they did not receive any fire from shore, but that Kerry had fired a mortar round at close range to some rocks on shore. The crewman thought that the injury was caused by a fragment ricocheting from that mortar round when it struck the rocks.

That seemed to fit the injury which I treated.

What I saw was a small piece of metal sticking very superficially in the skin of Kerry's arm. The metal fragment measured about 1 cm. in length and was about 2 or 3 mm in diameter. It certainly did not look like a round from a rifle.

I simply removed the piece of metal by lifting it out of the skin with forceps. I doubt that it penetrated more than 3 or 4 mm. It did not require probing to find it, did not require any anesthesia to remove it, and did not require any sutures to close the wound.

The wound was covered with a bandaid.

This is disgraceful. I have a great uncle who was a 2LT at Anzio who was killed by a German Flak 88 on 4 Mar 44. He was KILLED in action and received a purple heart. For Kerry to receive a PH for a bandaid is disgraceful!



To: Nikole Wollerstein who wrote (41386)8/8/2004 1:20:10 AM
From: American SpiritRespond to of 81568
 
Bush lied about his Purple Hangover Award in 1972, plus his Coke Snorting Championship SE Division trophy the year before. He also faked the Nepotism Foundation's Man Of The Year award given to the top favorite son in the nation who did nothing to deserve a career in politics. The pacifist AWOL Group also gave him their Man Of The Century award for promoting love not war.



To: Nikole Wollerstein who wrote (41386)8/8/2004 12:49:26 PM
From: CalculatedRiskRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 81568
 
Once again, Dr. Louis Letson was not the attending Doctor for Kerry's first wound in Vietnam (or any of Kerry's wounds). A different medical official other than Letson signed the "sick call sheet" summarizing treatment of Kerry's wound.

Still Letson claims to remember treating Kerry's wound. Maybe he is confusing Kerry with another wounded soldier. Maybe he is just lying.

nytimes.com

latimes.com