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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Rassman, who spent less than a week on his boat and barely knew Kerry at all, made it clear Kerry pulled him out of the water and earned his Bronze Star (he recommended him for Silver). Kerry was not hurt in the Rassman incident and no Purple Heart came out of it. It's bad enough Ty is whitewashing these stories. Et tu, SAMmy?
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Slave, IIRC Kerry was wounded in the arm by the explosion that rocked his boat and flipped Rassman off of it -- and that this was one of the two incidents noted in his third Purple Heart. Rassman described Kerry's arm as bleeding, while the injury report described "contusions".
S_A_M
P.S. How many of those 255 guys have signed affidavits and/or spoken out against Kerry from personal knowledge? Darn few. I suspect the rest signed up probably because they didn't like him them and/or were infuriated by his anti-war activism and/or don't like his current politics.
Hell, Kerry's former CO is a member and signed an affidavit -- even though he defended Kerry and his medals in the mid-1990s and as late as 2003. He has since admitted that he had no personal knowledge of any misrepresentations or misconduct by Kerry, but is going on what others in the group have told him. Don't make this out as more or different than it is. Club sez he had an open mind, and has since pulled back to the Cambodia incident as the key. We know you don't have an open mind, but there is no traction here.
P.P.S. (Referring to a later post of yours) You cannot posibly be so historically ignorant as to believe that U.S. forces did not operate covertly in Cambodia in at least the 1967-1973 time frame. The VC and NVA ran supplies through Cambodia, had support bases there, etc. The U.S. government denied such operations at the time, but it was happening. There is no doubt. Look it up.
