[Wild Irish Rogue]

This is embarrassing-even for the Kerry campaign.

Contusions are bruises.
Bacitracin is an OTC antibiotic cream-every home in America probably has a tube in their medicine cabinet.
Kerry gets shrapnel in his ass-what was he doing?
Diving for cover ?

Seriously, this is an embarrassment.
No one can justify a PH for a bruise, not even Kerry.

[Brytani]

Shrapnel in his buttocks? Well that explains his brain damage.

[spokeshave]

Bingo ..we have a winner....

"Kerry gets shrapnel in his ass-what was he doing?

Diving for cover ?"

[Mr. Silverback]

Kerry gets shrapnel in his ass-what was he doing? Diving for cover ?

I'm not here to defend John Frankburns Kerry, but have you seen Band of Brothers? I remember at least 3 of the guys in Easy Company of the 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne getting wounded in the hind end while fully engaged in opening a can of smite on the Nazis. There are a lot of ways a patrol boat skipper could catch some shrapnel in the tuchis while doing his job honorably; the skipper is not always facing the enemy directly, and even if he were at the very tip of the bow, shrapnel from a hit behind him could hit him in his stern. :-)

No one can justify a PH for a bruise, not even Kerry.

He didn't get a PH for a bruise, he got it for taking shrapnel.