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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wayners who wrote (607479)	8/21/2004 6:37:50 PM
From: Kevin Rose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Are you quoting from memory, or some source? Here is what Runyon said, which contradicts your post: Runyon said Kerry was wounded after one vessel tried to avoid an inspection. "Lt. Kerry said, 'I'm going to pop a flare, and when I do, I want that engine started,' " Runyon said. But the outboard would not crank. Meanwhile, the sampan's crew steered it to the riverbank, and people started running on the shore. Runyon said shooting broke out. Somehow, Kerry's weapon stopped firing. Runyon thinks he ran out of ammunition. He said Kerry bent down to pick up another gun and got hit in the arm. "It wasn't a serious wound," Runyon said, and Kerry was able to start shooting again. When the firefight was over, Runyon said Kerry told him all he felt was a "burning sensation." Runyon said he remembers the incident clearly because it was the first time he had been in combat. "I hadn't seen any kind of action or anything," he said. So, there was a firefight. Kerry's gun either jammed or ran out of ammo, then he was hit - how could that have been self inflicted? Runyon calls it a firefight; obviously there was enemy fire. The severity of the wound does not matter. It even doesn't matter if it was shrapnel from his own grenade, as far as a Purple Heart is concerned. So, witnesses corroborate Kerry's story, and the medal. Untruths with your version. I won't call them lies, because you may believe them. :) 1) Runyon said he never knew Kerry was wounded. His account says otherwise. 2) Runyon acknowledges they were in a firefight, which means someone is shooting at you. 3) Applied for Purple Heart. You don't 'apply for a Purple Heart'. There is no 'Purple Heart Application Form'. So, no story.