Posted on 8/23/2004, 4:14:50 PM by Pikamax
Kerry's thigh has shrapnel, records show Wound sustained in Vietnam War By and Michael Kranish, Globe Staff | April 24, 2004
WASHINGTON -- Senator John F. Kerry has shrapnel in his left thigh as a result of an injury sustained in the Vietnam War, according to medical records displayed by his presidential campaign yesterday. The records include notations for wounds for all three Purple Hearts, as well as for two bouts of pneumonia and "a minor non-specific urinary tract infection."
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The shrapnel still in Kerry's thigh stems from a Feb. 20, 1969, attack for which he was awarded his second Purple Heart. Kerry has said none of the three Purple Heart wounds cost him more than a couple of days of service. Kerry was able to leave combat six months early under Navy regulations that allowed a thrice-wounded sailor to depart Vietnam early.
Asked yesterday whether the thigh bothers him, Kerry told reporters on his campaign plane: "Only when it rains."
The Kerry campaign removed a 20-page batch of documents yesterday from its website after The Boston Globe quoted a Navy officer who said the documents wrongly portrayed Kerry's service. Edward Peck had said he -- not Kerry -- was the skipper of Navy boat No. 94 at a time when the Kerry campaign website credited the senator with serving on the boat. The website had described Kerry's boat as being hit by rockets and said a crewmate was injured in an attack. But Peck said those events happened when he was the skipper. The campaign did not respond to a request to explain why the records were removed.
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I had to have a CT scan in place of an MRI do to some fragments in my head.This was some years back and state of the art may have changed.
And the jokes about airport security are endless.
Not to worry I receive an income tax rebate each month!
Thank you fellow taxpayers!
"Only enlisted men get gonorrhea. Officers get nonspecific urethritis."
Sure ... with mama Ts Billion dollars, you don't think he would have had micro surgery to get it out? Especially if it bothers him in any way.
Bunch of crap if you ask me.
shell -- (ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun).
Frequently called spherical-case shot, this was an iron shell containing a number of canister-sized balls with a black-powder bursting charge and a powder-train time fuze. It was fired and exploded in the same manner as a conventional shell but when detonated scattered its small shot as well as the iron fragments of the shell itself. This ammunition was used by the British as early as 1808, but was not given its inventor's name until the 1850s. Shrapnel rounds were used in modern steel breechloading artillery well into the 20th century.
Can his body be scanned? (MRI)
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