Unless, I suppose, one had political aspirations. Then the trick was to subjet oneself to danger just long enough to risk getting a scratch on the cheek or catching a high-velocity rice kernal in the posterior (courtesy of one's own ill-tossed hand grenade). Then a Purple Heart was just one more item for one's resume and one whined until a superior relented and approved the award out of weariness of hearing the whine.
I know men who were grievously injured in Vietnam who were awarded Purple Hearts. Murtha's and Kerry's awards are blots on the history of that noble medal.
Maybe that's why Murtha got all emotional and threatened recently to give another wounded vet his own Purple Heart if the vet wasn't awarded one in his own right. Maybe Murtha's conscience got the better of him when he contrasted the plight of a deserving soldier with his own imaginary or real superficial wounds.
>>>>Maybe that's why Murtha got all emotional and threatened recently to give another wounded vet his own Purple Heart if the vet wasn't awarded one in his own right.
And it is even actions like this that make it more disgusting. This is belittling and scum that compare heroics to that of battered women (post 9) and the use medals for political resumes stain the points and earnings of medals.