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Originally posted by sgtclub
http://www.drudgereport.com/
This is significant because, as I understand it, a purple heart can't be awarded for self-inflicted wounds, unless self inflicted during fire with the enemy.
For those of you that don't trust drudge, I heard the same story last night from CC Collins of Time.
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Club --
I think it is fairly well established that the first PH came from a wound in the ass Kerry received from his own grenade, after Kerry used it to destroy VC rice stores during a combat mission . (he and a buddy were headed away from the explosion -- not fast enough). So yes, that is self-inflicted.
It was my understanding that the Navy deemed that this wound qualified because of the nature of the mission, even though they weren't taking fire. Do you have some evidence that Kerry lied to get the decoration?
S_A_M
