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Kerry's Curious Medals
The requirements for receiving a Purple Heart include that the soldier receives a wound "from an outside force or agent" and treatment from a medical officer.According to Kerry's own account of the action in which he received the wound for his first Purple Heart (as documented in "Tour of Duty"), Kerry and his crew opened fire on a sampan crossing the river, destroying the boat and cargo, yet did not take any enemy fire. The next day Kerry asked his commander for the medal:
Hibbard recalls that Kerry had a "minor scratch" on his arm and was holding in his hand what appeared to be a fragment of a U.S. M-79 grenade, the shrapnel that had caused the wound. "They didn't receive enemy fire," Hibbard said.Hibbard refused but somehow must have signed off on it shortly thereafter during the confusion of transferring to a new command (Kerry had petitioned for reconsideration after he transferred to a new division). [Ah, the fog of war . . .]
So Kerry
- Did not receive the wound from an enemy agent
- Did not have the necessary documentation of medical treatment
- And evidently got the medal for a wound received from an American grenade!
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