He got a silver star in an action not related to his war wounds. I hope we have the good sense to keeping our criticism to his actions as a Senator and Kerry supporter and lay off his service in Vietnam. However he lost his limbs, it was while doing his duty and unlike John Kerry he has never lied about what happened to him.
You're correct that he has never lied about what happened to him.
On the other hand, he has allowed others, speaking in his presence, to misrepresent his accident as 'leaving three limbs on the battlefield'.
<< .... he has never lied about what happened to him. >>
First consider that he was injured -- after turning away from an ordered rest and setting out to join others for a drinking session -- as the consequence of bending down to pick up a live grenade that, having left its pin behind, had just dropped off a belt.
Then that, for decades, he has lied by the age-old errors of omission and of having others lie for him.
More recently he has allowed his approaching-terminal-stage alcoholism to take ever-increasing control of his actions, activities, grandiose sense of entitlement and ever-less-under-control mouth and has grieviously slandered and libelled his political oponents by lying about the nature of their critisisms of his policy postions and stands and by misrepresenting those challenges as personal attacks upon his "patriotism.
Yair -- come to think of it -- on the evidence he's "lied about what happened to him."
But only for around thirty five years that I know of.