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To: i-node who wrote (198428)	8/25/2004 6:46:01 PM
From: Alighieri	Respond to of 1578141

Kerry's first Purple Heart was awarded for an injury which received as treatment the Vietnam-era equivalent of "Neosporin". You can't honestly believe someone this petty should be elected president. Yes...Kerry was lucky to come home with his hide, while our sitting president was having his flight status revoked for failing tests in the NG...and that's when he showed up. What a contrast eh? Al

To: i-node who wrote (198428)	8/25/2004 6:51:47 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1578141

David, You can't honestly believe someone this petty should be elected president. To be fair, it's not that "pettiness" that disqualifies Kerry. After all, I'm sure a lot of soldiers in Vietnam misrepresented wounds in order to get Purple Hearts and win themselves an early ticket out of the action. What disqualifies Kerry, if anything, is how he's portraying those medals and making it central to his campaign. Why? Just so he can win the so-called "swing votes." And most of Kerry's supporters are reluctantly going along with the charade because more than anything, they want Bush gone. Tenchusatsu

To: i-node who wrote (198428)	8/25/2004 7:27:35 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578141

"Kerry's first Purple Heart was awarded for an injury which received as treatment the Vietnam-era equivalent of "Neosporin"." And this has exactly what to do with how long Kerry served in Vietnam?

To: i-node who wrote (198428)	8/25/2004 11:17:27 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1578141

Kerry's first Purple Heart was awarded for an injury which received as treatment the Vietnam-era equivalent of "Neosporin". You can't honestly believe someone this petty should be elected president. There is only one person who's being petty and it ain't Kerry.......you can't stand the fact that Bush's opponent is a classy guy and Bush is, well, a shrub. Not only did Kerry serve during the Vietnam War unlike the shrub but he volunteered to command a swift boat. He could have been stayed on a frigate and been relatively safe. Instead, he wanted to be where the fighting was most intense. I know.........it must be confusing to you when confronted with an honorable man. After all, you are most comfortable with the likes of Mr. Bush. <font color=brown>"John Kerry enlisted in the Navy in February of 1966, months before he graduated from Yale. In December of 1967 Ensign Kerry was assigned to the guided-missile frigate USS Gridley; after five months of service in the Pacific, with a brief stop in Vietnam, he returned to the United States and underwent training to command a Swift boat, a small craft deployed in Vietnam's rivers. In June of 1968 Kerry was promoted to the rank of lieutenant (junior grade), and by the end of that year he was back in Vietnam, where he commanded, over time, two Swift boats. He received the Purple Heart three times for wounds suffered in action, and was awarded the Bronze Star and the Navy's Silver Star for gallantry in action. Kerry was discharged from the Navy in January of 1970, and soon became one of the most prominent spokesmen for the antiwar movement." theatlantic.com