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NEW YORK - A GOP delegate handed out more than 200 bandages with purple hearts on them Monday night at the Republican National Convention in a swipe at Democratic nominee John Kerry's war record, but national GOP officials have asked him to stop. The bandages were handed out by Morton Blackwell, a longtime GOP activist from Virginia, with the message: "It was just a self-inflicted scratch, but you see I got a Purple Heart for it." Kerry won three Purple Hearts, a Silver Star and a bronze star for his service in the Vietnam War. Democratic Chairman Terry McAuliffe said...

Democrats are outraged over Sen. Bob Dole's decision to question the circumstances under which John Kerry claimed three Purple Hearts. But they were silent nine years ago, when GOP-bashing cartoonist Gary Trudeau actually derided then-presidential candidate Dole for being wounded and almost dying in World War II. The subject of Trudeau's attack on Dole's combat wounds came up only once in mainstream media reports, during an April 1995 interview with Dole on ABC's "Prime Time Live." The network's Sam Donaldson showed the GOP candidate the cartoon, noting: "Three weeks ago, Trudeau drew a cartoon in which a television viewer...

Read this March 13th, 1969 spot report on Kerry's site spot report very carefully. I did, and my jaw dropped at what Kerry & Rassman are now telling. Rassman now states publicly Washington Post Kerry got rice/shrapnel in his ass when he & Kerry fragged a rice bin with some grenades and Kerry did not get out of the way in time when they went bang. As Rassman said in the article, "Evidently, Kerry did not run fast enough. "He got some frags and pieces of rice in his rear end," Rassmann said with a laugh. "It was more embarrassing...