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To: aladin who wrote (64051)	8/25/2004 4:26:23 PM
From: t4texas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793914

thanks for the info on cleland. i was totally unaware it was not a combat situation.

To: aladin who wrote (64051)	8/25/2004 4:32:03 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 793914

<<My Dad's career covers all of this same ground - 3 Purple Hearts from rather serious combat wounds, but his 2 worst injuries (including the one that eventually killed him) came outside of combat (but still in uniform) and generated no awards.>> A friend I went school with did his Nam tour and was back in the US doing his signing out. Some small kid in the housing area had found a grenade and he was sent to pick it up. When he got there the kid had pulled the pin, the spoon flew off. A year in combat without a scratch and then blown up with a day left in the service.