[BluH2o]

Cleland, who became a triple amputee in Vietnam when he picked up a live American grenade while horsing around ...

He picked up the grenade that had fallen off his, or anther soldiers webbing, while exiting a helicopter. Perhaps he didn't realize the pin had been jarred loose, thus arming the grenade, but horsing around with a grenade is not an accurate statement.

[hope]

Oh, ok. Do you have any other information you'd like to add regarding this?

[narby]

He picked up the grenade that had fallen off his, or anther soldiers webbing, while exiting a helicopter. Perhaps he didn't realize the pin had been jarred loose, thus arming the grenade, but horsing around with a grenade is not an accurate statement.

If you were horsing around with a grenade and it went off, what would you tell people 35 years later?

I have no idea what the real truth is, but he is a Democrat. Just because we all feel sorry he was so badly hurt doesn't mean we can't be a bit skeptical.

[lewislynn]

While I was serving in Viet Nam with a non-combat aircraft repair company some guy from a barracks next to mine found a fired, but not detonated round from a M-79 grenade launcher.

While sitting at their bunks, another soldier asked to see it. It was tossed to him but slipped through his fingers and went off killing one and wounding a couple of others.

The soldier killed was from Hawaii.

The military reported to the newspaper that he was killed in an ambush just outside of where we were stationed (Vung Tau).

The point is, only Max Cleland and anyone who witnessed it really knows what happened and "horsing around" with a grenade is just as likely as not.

[Hildy]

See, I've heard something completely different about the grenade. What is the real story?