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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (24580)	9/21/2004 5:04:12 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Respond to of 173976

Peter, You keep missing the point. I'm just pointing out why a Purple Heart is awarded, if you will let any facts creep into your rant. Bob Dole's wounds on the first Purple Heart were, as he described it, scratches.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (24580)	9/21/2004 5:09:41 PM
From: CalculatedRisk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

"In the darkness, the grenade must have struck a tree and bounced off. It exploded nearby, sending a sliver of metal into my leg--the sort of injury the Army patched up with Mercurochrome and a Purple Heart." Bob Dole, 1988

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (24580)	9/21/2004 6:08:49 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Peter, my dad got a Purple Heart in WW II, for a tiny piece of shrapnel in his ass. He was a navigator on a C-47. The shrapnel came from flak on a parachute drop over Sicily. A doctor pulled the metal out, and put some mecurochrome and a band-aid on the wound. He spent no time in the hospitial, and missed no duty. He didn't request the medal, the Army Air Corps just gave it to him. He didn't think much of it. If his legs had been blown off, he'd have gotten the same Purple Heart.