[Hon]

"You ask that as if it's sooo unbelievable...It was a dangerous war and this seems completely plausable. I'm sure there is a long list of guys who were killed on their first day?"

I suspect you are trolling, but if you aren't perhaps you didn't read what I had posted from the Boston Globe. When Kerry first arrived the Swift boats had a very safe assignment. One of the safest.

What are the odds that he would get wounded--in a combat situation (as is required for a Purple Heart)?

Bear in mind that the Boston Globe reporters I am quoting from have a book coming out next month in which they question Kerry's Purple Heart wounds and his early out.

[MEG33]

Gee,I thought corkscrew was quite the strategist.....;)

[oldironsides]

I was walking from one tent to another is a driving monsoon rain at night. I was checking on post op patients. We had to find objects to put under the cots so they would not sink. I walked into a wet tent rope that put one crappy burn on my face. I wore that mark for a while. It never occured to me to put in for anything.........or even consider it. I saw many wounded with serious injuries. Some shot more than once or hit in multiple places by fragments of metal. Each wound serious. Why did these men with multiple wounds get one Purple Heart?