Kerry has shrapnel in left thigh from Vietnam War injury

[kskiska]

John Kerry has a piece of shrapnel in his left thigh from an injury he suffered in the Vietnam War, his doctor said Friday during a review of 36 pages of the Democratic presidential candidate's military medical records.

The records shown briefly to reporters provided a few more details about the wounds that resulted in Kerry's three Purple Hearts and show that he suffered from respiratory ailments, a skin rash and a minor urinary tract infection during his four years in the Navy.

Kerry was wounded three times while commanding a swiftboat in Vietnam's Mekong Delta, an assignment that brought him close to enemy fire several times.

Some of Kerry's critics have questioned whether his injuries were serious enough to warrant three Purple Hearts and reassignment out of Vietnam. Kerry's doctor, Gerald Doyle, said he could not characterize the severity of the wounds since he didn't see them, but he noted that Kerry was in danger of serious injury several times.

Kerry got his first Purple Heart after he got shrapnel in his left arm above his elbow. Doyle noted that if the shrapnel had hit Kerry in the eye, it could have blinded him.

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[bluestateguy]

1. Well, uh, John Kerry has no courage!

The REAL men of courage in this country are George W. Bush and "Dick Cheney who was a former admiral in the Navy".*





*Actual quote from a student of mine.

[IronLionZion]

10. oh yeah? which navy?

cause it wasn't the US one.

[htuttle]

21. It was more like a yacht club

[Jack from Charlotte]

2. Yea, but that's not the serious kind of shrapnel .............

like AWOL W. Bush or Drug Limbaugh or George Will or Dick Cheney or Tom Delay or Sean Hanity or Bill O'Reilly would have gotten had they been given the chance to go to 'Nam.

[Isere]

3. In his LEFT thigh?

This must be a secret sign that he's a communist!

[Jackpine Radical]

5. I guess he should have turned the other cheek??

[kskiska]

4. Disgusting remarks from FReeperville

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1123408/posts

[TrogL]

6. they're STILL going on about communists??

[prodigal_green]

8. Damn those Jacobites!

LOL, how long has it been? Over a decade? What a bizarre name to call someone.

[IronLionZion]

12. Jacobite is a religion

Jacobite

\Jac"o*bite\, n. 1. (Eng. Hist.) A partisan or adherent of James the Second, after his abdication, or of his descendants, an opposer of the revolution in 1688 in favor of William and Mary. --Macaulay.

2. (Eccl.) One of the sect of Syrian Monophysites. The sect is named after Jacob Baradus, its leader in the sixth century.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

[prodigal_green]

14. I know, I was just looking for a olde tyme opposition group.

[belle]

19. Accursed Spartans!

[PROGRESSIVE1]

9. Argh

:argh:

[monobrau]

22. Spitting on a veteran

This shows you what these people are about. Notions of honor and decency are a paper thin facade that they use to hide behind while our finest go off to die for them. I have my differences with John McCain and Bob Dole, but to question their service or patriotism is beyond the pale.
What a bunch of sociopathic vermin.

[democrat in Tallahassee]

7. i have a piece if shrapnel taken from my brother's eye in vietnam

and these shits that are complaining about kerry should come and see the shrapnel; it is a nasty curved piece of tin from a bobby trap that exploded in my brother's face.
screw these chicken hawks they don't have fucking clue what they are talking about.


,

[MidwestTransplant]

11. Bush's worst injury was a Hemorrhoid

[Kool Kitty]

13. Now, now-be nice.

You saw his medical report. He had *gasp* two whole cavities. I can't believe that the pugs are still running down this road.

[central scrutinizer]

16. possibly a perforated septum

from, ah, you know

[Cocoa]

15. this is getting surreal

Bush was freaking AWOL, and it was completely ignored in the press. Now they're crawling up Kerry's ass about this.

[bluedog]

17. what happened to Powell

how did he get purple heart.I heard he stepped on a "punji" stick

[Rex]

18. Spite is an amazing thing.

The RW just can't handle their fake image as being the 'military crowd' trampled on by a Democrat. This hurts their base because it pokes wholes in the theory (that the RW perpetuated) that Right Wingers are military studs.

Eat shit RW lurkers...

Kerry = War Hero
Bush = War Zero.

[PfcHammer]

20. * got a beer bottle cap in his skull from a 70's bender