Again, this has been debated, discussed, and proved incorrect numerous times. Let go, already.

You're a Cheney man, aren't you? You still believe there's WMD, don't you? :rolleyes:

He got one of those purple hearts for getting rice in the ass from a grenade HE threw into a barrel of rice that he was trying to destroy. Now, unless that barrel of rice was attacking him, I would say that concerning that particular purple heart, it is suspect. BTW, that is from his own book "Tour of Duty".

This is where everyone has it wrong
You can receive a purple heart for injuries sustained through friendly fire.

Like I stated earlier your Republican buddy Bob Dole recived a purple heart in WWII for his grenade bouncing off a tree that caused him injuries.

Um Lead Thrower, you get a purple heart through friendly fire when in direct action with the enemy, not when you are horsing around with live grenades having fun (which is what he admits to doing). That at least shows great irresponsibility on Kerry's part.

"And according to a Navy casualty report released by the Kerry campaign, the third purple heart was received for "shrapnel wounds in left buttocks and contusions on his right forearm when a mine detonated close aboard PCF-94," Kerry's boat. As a matter of strict grammar, the report doesn't state that both injuries were received as a result of the mine explosion, only the arm injury."

Qoute from Factcheck.org

So for the third purple heart he got some rice in the ass and some shrap in the arm from a mine.