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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jim-thompson who wrote (88578)	3/2/2007 7:12:44 PM
From: Kevin Rose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

A Purple Heart does not need to be a severe wound. It can even be self inflicted, if the intent was to attack the enemy: “As we approached the enemy, there was a brief exchange of gunfire”—this was, of course, in the mountains of Italy- “and I took a grenade in hand, pulled the pin and tossed it in the direction of the farmhouse. It wasn‘t a very good pitch. (Remember, I was used to catching passes, not throwing them.) 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. The SBVT tried to trick one of Kerry's crewmembers into lying about Kerry's first PH: Pat Runyon was with Kerry on the mission for which Kerry was awarded his first Purple Heart. On August 21, 2004, Runyon told the Cleveland Plain Dealer that he has no doubt that Kerry was injured in a firefight and deserved the Purple Heart. Runyon was not a regular member of Kerry's crew but was somehow chosen for the mission. He says their boat carried only 3 men, Kerry, Bill Zaladonis, and himself. Runyon said Kerry was hit in the arm when shooting broke out from a vessel that tried to avoid an inspection. He said he remembers it well because it was the first time he had ever been in combat. "I hadn't seen any kind of action or anything," he said. Runyon explained how the SwiftVets tried to trick him into making false statements about Kerry. He told the Kansas City Star that a guy called who he thought was from a pro-Kerry group and that he was happy to give a statement about the night Kerry earned his Purple Heart. The guy told Runyon that he would e-mail the statement for him to sign. When the statement arrived, all of his references to combat were deleted. "It made it sound like I didn't believe we got any return fire," Runyon said. "He made it sound like it was a normal operation," when he says, "It was the scariest night of my life." The Swiftvet's book claims a William Schachte was on Kerry's boat that night. That story is false. When asked to verify who was on the boat, Bill Zaladonis said, "myself, Pat Runyon, and John Kerry; we were the only ones in the skimmer." And Runyon agreed, "there definitely was not a fourth," he said. All of the men who witnessed the ambush and came forward to defend Kerry have given descriptions of the event that match the official version in the Navy-certified record. And, not one had a bad word to say about Kerry. Runyon described the John Kerry he served under in Vietnam, "I saw a nice, quiet guy who knew he was in command and didn't flaunt it. He could make a decision, and he made the right one because we got out of there alive," he told the Plain Dealer. buzzflash.com Don't know why the three versions...you just cut and paste the 5 months thing...Navy regulations sent him out of combat. Kerry released all his records AND signed the Form 180. You guys are still digging in a dry hole...

To: jim-thompson who wrote (88578)	3/2/2007 9:54:26 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Correct. Bob Dole received a Purple Heart for a minor cut on his arm. Kerry still has shrapnel in his thigh 40 years later. And shrapnel, even small pieces can kill it it hits an artery. Besides, lying rightwing enemies of vets like you have attacked Silver Star hero Max Cleland for getting three limbs blown off, so why should we care what you think of minor battle wounds? Not a single Bushie leader has ever even served in combat, and it shows in Iraq where a chimpanzee would have made a better Commander in Chief. You're all obese selfish cowards and fat-assed hypocrites and if you think you care about our military so much, why aren't you concerned that Bush has been shafting the wounded vets at Walter Reed? And why haven't you enlisted? coward.