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Originally posted by Not Bob
Read the article, Bilmore. If you do, you would see that it said:
re: the firefight or lack of a firefight:- In his affidavit, Letson says Kerry's wound was self-inflicted and does not merit a purple heart. But that's based on hearsay, and disputed hearsay at that. Letson says “the crewman with Kerry told me there was no hostile fire, and that Kerry had inadvertently wounded himself with an M-79 grenade.” But the Kerry campaign says the two crewmen with Kerry that day deny ever talking to Letson.
On Aug. 17 the Los Angeles Times quoted Letson as giving a slightly different account than the one in his affidavit. The Times quotes him as saying he heard only third-hand that there had been no enemy fire. According to the Times, Letson said that what he heard about Kerry's wounding came not from other crewmen directly, but through some of his own subordinates. Letson was quoted as saying the information came from crewmen who were "just talking to my guys … There was not a firefight -- that's what the guys related. They didn't remember any firing from shore."
You're right -- it's undisputed. Kerry says there was one, and the doctor says that he heard that his staff heard that there wasn't a fight. Direct testimony versus third-hand hearsay. And I'll have to check, but I think that Kerry's direct testimony was supported by Sandusky.
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Okay, I see our difference here.
To you, Kerry's testimony on this matter is dispositive.
Sometimes I guess you just write your motions and let the judge decide.
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Re his disobeying his commanding officer to put in for the Purple Heart:- Also appearing in the ad is Grant Hibbard, Kerry’s commanding officer at the time. Hibbard’s affidavit says that he “turned down the Purple Heart request,” and recalled Kerry's injury as a "tiny scratch less than from a rose thorn."
That doesn't quite square with Letson's affidavit, which describes shrapnel "lodged in Kerry's arm" (though "barely.")
Hibbard also told the Boston Globe in an interview in April 2004 that he eventually acquiesced about granting Kerry the purple heart.
Hibbard: I do remember some questions on it. . .I finally said, OK if that's what happened. . . do whatever you want.
Mutiny! Why didn't the Navy shoot that Kerry bastard when he put in for that!
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You're correct here. I was confusing his multiple trivial injuries. No commander saw this one.
(ETA - I do need to add - look at the picture you're painting here of your hero. Impressive.)
