Kerry did spend 3 months in Vietnam, and it's kind of cute to see Democrats pretend to admire military service. Physical courage, like self reliance, is something liberals usually deride, but are tickled when it accidentally manifests itself in one of their own.
2007-10-10 13:06:49 · 22 answers · asked by DANCER 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
oh oh oh.... GOOD IDEA!!!
I know who the next Dem nominee will be.....
Jane Fonda!
2007-10-11 04:23:44 · answer #1 · answered by USMCstingray 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Three Purple Hearts in three months. WOW! I'm impressed! Well not really. Think about it for a moment. Purple Hearts are supposed to be given out for wounds recieved in combat from the enemy.
Bob Dole (R-IO) and John Inoye (D-HI) both served in WWII and got Purple Hearts. Dole's are was severly damaged and never was restored to full function. Inoye lost one of his arms to the shoulder. Now these wounds are definitly worthy of the Medal. I realise you can be shot or hit by shrapnel and completely recover with no obvious damage. Unless you go swimming no one can see the scars and maybe not even then. But those are still serious wounds and would take time to heal.
In Viet Nam cruising the rivers and getting in the jungle was no place to be with a wound for many medical reasons. It was just too easy to get a secondary infection.
But John Kerry was wounded three times. Did he return to combat before the wound was healed? Or maybe it wasn't really that serious? Just how was he wounded anyway?
I have a friend who turned down a Purple Heart. Although he was wounded by enemy fire (shrapnel cut both cheeks of his butt {it doesn't show and he said is was a minor wound, only 20 stitches}) he wasn't fighting in combat when it happened so he refused it. He felt if he had accepted it the awards to others would have been cheapened.
So what were the circumstances that got John Kerry those Purple Hearts?
2007-10-11 00:55:17 · answer #2 · answered by namsaev 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why ought to all of us care approximately John Kerry? He did no longer get elected and he's not working for President now. How approximately instead digging rather deep to bash liberals so as to electrify the dittoheads, you return up with some suggestions to a number of the themes plaguing us as a rustic.
2016-12-29 03:49:36 · answer #3 · answered by mcgarr 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I personally miss nothing about John Kerry. I'd be perfectly fine with the idea of never hearing his name again but he'll probably be around longer than Ted Kennedy, who I wouldn't miss either.
2007-10-11 01:58:33 · answer #4 · answered by Keith 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
His absence did take a lot of the comedy relief out of the campaign. It's just not the same with the cackle, the child star and the Breck Girl.
2007-10-10 13:38:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yea I miss John Kerry but my aim is getting much better.
2007-10-10 13:30:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Yea/ 3 purple hearts and not one minute in a hospital.
A disgrace to those who left an arm or a leg or a life in the rice paddies.
2007-10-10 13:21:20 · answer #7 · answered by TedEx 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Scary Kerry made me want to puke every time I looked at him. Of course, we might have had to look at him again if he hadn't done himself in!!!!!
2007-10-10 13:48:09 · answer #8 · answered by Eyes Wide Open 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have skivies that spent more time in Nam than Kerry did.
http://www.tinyvital.com/Misc/KerryHonoredByCommunists2.htm
2007-10-10 13:11:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
GWB is selling out the USA to Mexico and the Hag on the murder /rape case in Texas.
2007-10-10 14:29:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I do. He's a funny guy. Remember "I was for the war before I was against it".
He was just being funny, wasn't he?
2007-10-10 13:13:18 · answer #11 · answered by ? 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋