[SpinyNorman]

A useful statistic would be the number of soldiers that availed themselves of the same technicality to bail out of Vietnam. And subcategorized by degree of injury, i.e. critical, severe, substantial, trivial, Kerry level. (snicker)

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Degrees of injury:

Kerry level- Injury is superficial enough to be treated in minutes, can be completely covered with a band-aid, yet the patient INSISTS on receiving a Purple Heart medal for his grevious level of suffering.

Mandatory- Wuss-alert to be placed on patient's permanent service record.

[cpdiii]

When my brother had a minor injury from a mortar attack he did not receive a purple heart. I asked him why not. He said the injury was so minor that he would have been embarrassed to apply for the purple heart.