Denys Beauchemin spins:
> Those records are incomplete.  You should know that his first Purple
> Heart is being called into question by the 250 Swiftees of the
> organization at www.swiftvets.com.
>
> They state he inflicted his extremely superficial wound on himself by
> discharging an M-79 (grenade launcher) too close to the boat.  The 2 mm
> piece of shrapnel he caught in the arm came from his own grenade.  The
> doctor extracted the piece of shrapnel with tweezers and put on a
> Band-Aid.  It was nothing.  His commanding officer threw him out of his
> office when Kerry came to ask for a Purple Heart recommendation.  His
> CO
> was surprised to learn during the current election campaign that Kerry
> somehow got a Purple Heart for his self-inflicted scratch.  He does not
> know how Kerry did it and who signed for it.  That record is sealed.
>
> You will notice that the Kerry website only shows the Purple Heart
> certificates, not the actual recommendations; we thus do not know who
> signed the recommendation.  Further, the incident that led to his first
> Purple Heart is noticeably absent from his "After-Action Combat
> Reports"
> section of his web site.

You mean these Swift Vets?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,128188,00.html
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Swift_Boat_Veterans_for_Truth

> Oh, and if you think this ad is unjustified, just remember these
> veterans are responding to John Edwards' ad which uses their pictures
> without their approval.

I don't know if it is or is not justified, but John McCain (a Republican,
last time I checked) seems to have a pretty strong opinion on the matter.

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