Black Eye Club was hard on ole Louis
MEDAL MUDDLE – VETS SAY KERRY WAS A FRAUD
The book alleges that a normal Vietnam tour was at least 12 months, but Kerry came in as a “Purple Heart hunter” eager to have three wounds in the record time of four months so he could use “an obscure rule” to escape Vietnam.
A Purple Heart is supposed to be granted only for a wound that requires medical attention suffered during an engagement with the enemy.
The book says Kerry got his first Purple Heart on Dec. 2, 1968, but crewmates, his commander and a Navy doctor who treated him say it was a tiny injury – a ricochet off a grenade that Kerry fired too close into a rock.
William Schachte, the officer commanding that mission, “berated Kerry for almost putting someone’s eye out. There was no hostile fire of any kind,” the book says.
Kerry’s wound was so minor that in sick bay, Navy Dr. Louis Letson asked him, “Why are you here?” and used tweezers to take out a 1- or 2-centimeter metal fragment that barely stuck into his skin.
The Kerry camp has previously challenged Letson’s account by noting that another medic signed the sick-bay report. Letson says both of them were on duty.
Kerry’s commander, Grant Hibbard, is quoted as saying that Kerry came to see him the next day to seek a Purple Heart, but “I told Kerry to ‘forget it.’ ” Asked how Kerry got a Purple Heart, Hibbard replied, “It beats me.”
https://nypost.com/2004/08/06/medal-muddle-vets-say-kerry-was-a-fraud/
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