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. * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *