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Kerry is losing his battle with the Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth. First, it was Cambodia. Kerry’s seared memory of spending Christmas in Cambodia being shot at by the Khmer Rouge, the Cambodians, and the South Vietnamese has now been show to be false. His campaign has admitted as much.
Then it was his first Purple Heart. It has now been revealed he got his first Purple Heart from an accidental self-inflicted wound from his own hand-grenade. Not exactly valorous stuff.
We now find out, when Kerry volunteered for Swift Boat duty when they were engaged in relatively safe coastal patrols. Shortly after becoming a Swift Boat commander, the Swifties were redeployed to rivers of Vietnam – a much riskier venture.
Sixteen weeks later, Kerry applied was received a ticket out of the combat zone for his three purple hearts.
Posted by Ted at August 24, 2004 9:51 PM