'Trying to acquire Purple Hearts' - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED - August 26, 2004

Washington Times: Vietnam Combat Surgeon: Kerry's first "injury" does not merit a Purple Heart. Disagree? Let's look at Kerry's milirary records to judge. Oh, that's right. . . Kerry won't authorize the release of them to the public.

"During my year in DaNang, a few combatants urged me to verify small abrasions as "wounds" so they could get a Purple Heart. Each freely admitted trying to acquire Purple Hearts as rapidly as possible to take advantage of the policy allowing those with three Purple Hearts to apply to leave Vietnam early. I refused them. But some went shopping for another opinion. Unfortunately, we had some antiwar physicians in Vietnam who were happy to become accomplices in these frauds. Most with valid Purple Hearts didn't need to apply to leave Vietnam: The seriousness of their wounds demanded it.

Lt. John Kerry's collecting three Purple Hearts within 100 days — all for wounds too minor to require hospitalization — recalls the distasteful memories of having to deal with those few miscreants in DaNang."

Kerry's "wound" could have been treated by a corpsman with a pair of tweezers and a band-aid. So how did he get a MD to sign off on the Purple Heart? We'll never know unless his records are opened.

Undecided voers are coming to realize how full of merde canidate Kerry really is. . .