"John H" wrote in message
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On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 17:00:37 -0400, "Don"
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"John H" wrote in message
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On 19 Apr 2004 04:16:26 -0700, (basskisser) wrote:

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"Bill" wrote in message
Oh yea Asskisser and Harry you need to look at Kerry's Purple
Hearts and
how
he got them.. Just a little fact finding mission.or do you have
the
guts
to
look for yourself.

1. Gunshot wound,left arm, in a firefight on river patrol.
2. Shrapnel wound, right arm, bomb near patrol boat.
3. Shrapnel wound, left thigh.

Wow! Those sound like some serious wounds. How long did he spend in
the
hospital for each of his injuries?

You don't consider shrapnel wounds, and gunshot wounds serious? How
many times, and what types of combat injuries did YOU receive? I take
it you must have some, because above, you've qualified yourself to be
an expert, and subsequently deem gunshot and shrapnel wounds serious
or not.

(Breaking resolution again...)
Some wounds are serious, some aren't. His fall in the latter category.

Well, they were serious enough to get him a few Purple Hearts and rotated
back to the world.
So in essence, your opinion seems to be politically skewed from reality.

It was Dec. 2, 1968, and Lt. j.g. John Kerry was on a special nighttime
covert mission in Vietnam. He had been ordered into a Viet Cong-infested
peninsula north of Cam Ranh Bay to disrupt a smuggling operation. His
vessel
was a Boston Whaler, a boat that could float after taking 1,000 rounds of
automatic weapons fire. Much of the evening was spent apprehending
fishermen
in a curfew zone. At approximately 2 a.m., however, they proceeded up an
inlet with wild jungle on both sides of the boat. As they approached a
bay,
Kerry's whaler fired flares into the air. To their horror, not far from
them, were a startled group of Viet Cong smugglers trafficking in
contraband.
"We opened fire," Kerry told me in a Jan. 30, 2003, interview. "The light
from the flares started to fade, the air was full of explosions. My M-16
jammed, and as I bent down to grab another gun, a stinging piece of heat
socked into my arm and just seemed to burn like hell. By this time one of
the sailors had started the engine and we ran by the beach strafing it.
Then
it was quiet."


The receipt of a Purple Heart does not signify a serious wound. A shrapnel
wound
could be a scratch or a lost leg. Both could earn a Purple Heart. If Kerry
was
not hospitalized, the wound could not have been very serious. Serious
wounds
often end up in Walter Reed.

Tomorrow, 20 APR 2004, will be the 29th anniversary of my having spent 6
weeks in a hospital in traction, 3 months in a wheelchair and 4 more months
on crutches, while serving in the Army on foreign soil. Would that have
qualified, in your opinion, as a serious injury?

On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 22:23:36 -0400, "Don" wrote:

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Tomorrow, 20 APR 2004, will be the 29th anniversary of my having spent 6
weeks in a hospital in traction, 3 months in a wheelchair and 4 more months
on crutches, while serving in the Army on foreign soil. Would that have
qualified, in your opinion, as a serious injury?


What you have described is a regimen of medical treatment. I have no idea what
prompted the medical treatment. It could have been a birth defect.

John H

On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

John H wrote:

On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 22:23:36 -0400, "Don" wrote:

Some snipped

Tomorrow, 20 APR 2004, will be the 29th anniversary of my having spent 6
weeks in a hospital in traction, 3 months in a wheelchair and 4 more months
on crutches, while serving in the Army on foreign soil. Would that have
qualified, in your opinion, as a serious injury?



What you have described is a regimen of medical treatment. I have no idea what
prompted the medical treatment. It could have been a birth defect.

John H


There's nothing quite like right-wing trash.