"Maxprop" wrote in message
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"Jonathan Ganz" wrote in message
And ever wonder who approved them??

IIRC, they were all approved stateside, in some obscure room in the
Pentagon. As long as they appeared proper, no one here questioned
them.
The Pentagon had to rely on field commanders for veracity. Kerry's
first PH
was for a band-aid scratch. His commanding officer refused to sign
off on a
PH application for him because of the nature of the wound, which was
minor
AND self-inflicted. PHs are only awarded when the victim is injured
by
enemy action. Kerry launched a grenade incorrectly and a piece of
the
rebounding shrapnel hit him. Bottom line: he did an end run around
his
commander to get the application sent in. And it's exactly THAT
application
plus the ones for the remaining PHs and the Silver and Bronze Stars
that
Kerry won't sign off on releasing. I think it's because the PH
applications
are in Kerry's own handwriting. Or perhaps signed by himself.

Sounds like a typical politician to me.

SV