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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Udie on May 04, 2004, 08:08:43 PM
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http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york200405041626.asp
Kerry Purple Heart Doc Speaks Out
The medical description of his first wound.
By Byron York
Some critics of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry have questioned the circumstances surrounding the first of three Purple Hearts Kerry won in Vietnam. Those critics, among them some of Kerry's fellow veterans, have suggested that a wound suffered by Kerry in December 1968 may have made him technically eligible for a Purple Heart but was not severe enough to warrant serious consideration, even for a decoration that was handed out by the thousands. Whatever the case, Kerry was awarded the Purple Heart, and, along with two others he won later, it allowed him to request to leave Vietnam before his tour of duty was finished.
Kerry was treated for the wound at a medical facility in Cam Ranh Bay. The doctor who treated Kerry, Louis Letson, is today a retired general practitioner in Alabama. Letson says he remembers his brief encounter with Kerry 35 years ago because "some of his crewmen related that Lt. Kerry had told them that he would be the next JFK from Massachusetts." Letson says that last year, as the Democratic campaign began to heat up, he told friends that he remembered treating one of the candidates many years ago. In response to their questions, Letson says, he wrote down his recollections of the time. (Letson says he has had no contacts with anyone from the Bush campaign or the Republican party.) What follows is Letson's memory, as he wrote it.
I have a very clear memory of an incident which occurred while I was the Medical Officer at Naval Support Facility, Cam Ranh Bay.
John Kerry was a (jg), the OinC or skipper of a Swift boat, newly arrived in Vietnam. On the night of December 2, he was on patrol north of Cam Ranh, up near Nha Trang area. The next day he came to sick bay, the medical facility, for treatment of a wound that had occurred that night.
The story he told was different from what his crewmen had to say about that night. According to Kerry, they had been engaged in a fire fight, receiving small arms fire from on shore. He said that his injury resulted from this enemy action.
Some of his crew confided that they did not receive any fire from shore, but that Kerry had fired a mortar round at close range to some rocks on shore. The crewman thought that the injury was caused by a fragment ricocheting from that mortar round when it struck the rocks.
That seemed to fit the injury which I treated.
What I saw was a small piece of metal sticking very superficially in the skin of Kerry's arm. The metal fragment measured about 1 cm. in length and was about 2 or 3 mm in diameter. It certainly did not look like a round from a rifle.
I simply removed the piece of metal by lifting it out of the skin with forceps. I doubt that it penetrated more than 3 or 4 mm. It did not require probing to find it, did not require any anesthesia to remove it, and did not require any sutures to close the wound.
The wound was covered with a bandaid.
Not [sic] other injuries were reported and I do not recall that there was any reported damage to the boat.
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wouldnt surprise me at all
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Yeah, lol, Kerry might as well pack it in this is just that damning.
Hey Udie, you posted this (http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=115652) yesterday.
I didn't hear anything about it. What happened with that?
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LOL Oh well George will have another four years it looks like.
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(http://pics.montypics.com/cdaviesaz/2004-05-04/1083692251_Bush_football_pass.jpg)
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I'm surprised that the doctor remembered such an "insignificant" injury.
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HE LIES!!!! KERRY IS WAR HERO!!!!
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Originally posted by Nash
Yeah, lol, Kerry might as well pack it in this is just that damning.
Hey Udie, you posted this (http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=115652) yesterday.
I didn't hear anything about it. What happened with that?
:D <-- click it.... (http://interestalert.com/brand/siteia.shtml?Story=st/sn/05040000aaa00c01.upi&Sys=siteia&Fid=WORLDNEW&Type=News&Filter=World%20News)
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Originally posted by Udie
:D <-- click it.... (http://interestalert.com/brand/siteia.shtml?Story=st/sn/05040000aaa00c01.upi&Sys=siteia&Fid=WORLDNEW&Type=News&Filter=World%20News)
No WAY! It made http://interestalertdotcom??!!!
Holy! The ramifications of such a widespread story cannot be fathomed!
LOL! This is what became of your big story?
This coupled with an Alabama doctor's remarkable memory of removing a sliver from some anonymous soldier amidst all the other casualties Vietnam produced...
"Letson says he remembers his brief encounter with Kerry 35 years ago because "some of his crewmen related that Lt. Kerry had told them that he would be the next JFK from Massachusetts."
Cheeeyeah....... riiiiiiiiiight!
What's it gonna be tomorrow?
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C'mon Nash, be a good boy and drink your Kool-Aid.
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you guys already did drink the Kool-Aid Sandy :D The democratic party has been full of mind numb robots for years now. By the way I love that avatard :)
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UDIE this isnt a bad day for kerry but a bad YEAR. Dems realize that they have elected a pretty chitty canidate. Edwards or even DEAN YEEEAAARRRGGGHH have a better chand of beating bush.
right now they are wishing for a take back and if you look at their posts on this board it shows big time.
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Yawn. Somebody posted the same thing a couple weeks ago. Do ALL Republicans post the same BS over and over again? Kerry went to Vietnam, Bush hid out. Get over it.:rolleyes:
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Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
HE LIES!!!! KERRY IS WAR HERO!!!!
Yeah, but for which side? :)
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Well, gee this did not convince you guys? (Sandy, Nash and RPM)
Who would have thunk it?
Just as Bush the deserter BS, does not convince people like Nuke , Rude, Grun, Steve, Udie ETC ok well me too.
Has anyone not made up their mind on this board yet?
Come on you guys, you know if Kerry sprouted horns and a pitch fork and a red cape you would still vote Kerry, just as most of us would still vote for Bush if he started sticking cigars in placing they should not go...
This stuff is not for us. It is for the guys who still have not made up their minds, the guys who do not follow this ****, the wishy washy types that can be swayed by this. All it does here is show us who is were on politics.
I am not rabid pro bush as some of you are not rabid pro kerry, they are just the lesser of two evils for what we wont from a pres.
It is sad really.
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Always the optimist!!!!! Let's see if it will work, one more time! :)
Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
(http://pics.montypics.com/cdaviesaz/2004-05-04/1083692251_Bush_football_pass.jpg)
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I could throw a football farther than either of them, and with a much better spiral.
Me for prezuhdint!
-SW
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Originally posted by AKS\/\/ulfe
I could throw a football farther than either of them, and with a much better spiral.
Me for prezuhdint!
-SW
Run. I'll vote for you over either of those ultra melons.
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all I can say is I will not vote for Kerry, he is a two faced bastard who cares nothing for the american people other than those slated to give his next massage...
Hope he steps on a tack... (sure that'lll earn him a purple heart too) :rolleyes:
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Woohoo! One vote down, and only need 50,456,061 more in the appropriate states.
Maybe SOB could give up his gerbil for four years so I can have a VP. Whadya think SOB? You can fill that void with something else.
-SW
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Wow... a dispute over how someone got one of their THREE purple hearts and a doctored photo.
God bless the internet.
MiniD
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Whatever, MiniD, you nazi. He can't catch a football, damnit! HOW DO YOU EXPECT HIM TO LEAD THE FREE WORLD?! Besides, he probably bought his purple hearts from ebay LOLROFLMAOLAT!!!!!!!11
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SOB is a Kerry voter....
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Originally posted by SOB
LOLROFLMAOLAT!!!!!!!11
Launch a tomato? x11?
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Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
SOB is a Kerry voter....
Come on now, that's just mean.
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Originally posted by Nash
Launch a tomato? x11?
Like A Tard, of course! ;)
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Bush didn't even dare to go as far as Kerry, but was safely in US :D
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Yeah, a very bad day.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=1&u=/nm/20040505/ts_nm/iraq_abuse_usa_dc
"The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a private contractor who worked for the CIA was found to have committed the other homicide against a prisoner. "
"Sen. John McCain, an Arizona Republican and committee member who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam, joined many lawmakers in complaining that Rumsfeld and other top Pentagon officials failed to inform Congress of the situation.
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Originally posted by SOB
Like A Tard, of course! ;)
Ahh!
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Kerry would make the iraq torture situation worse. Renember he's an admitted war criminal....
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Go make me a sammich.
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Originally posted by Nash
Go make me a sammich.
I just did!! Amazing coincidence...
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Not so coincidental. Hand it over.
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Originally posted by Nash
Not so coincidental. Hand it over.
Ahhh, too late now. But you can have it in a few hours, or at the lastest by tommorow morning. :D
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"Do I know her?
Dude!
She ***** on my chest!"
Wise quote from a friend of mine, somewhere.
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grun.. that pic is hilarious.
Bush and kerry are both idiots.. Bush is much more honest tho and.... not a womanly democrat. Voting for kerry is like voteing for boxer and finestein to move in with you. and your mom.
lazs
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Originally posted by lazs2
grun.. that pic is hilarious.
Bush and kerry are both idiots.. Bush is much more honest tho and.... not a womanly democrat. Voting for kerry is like voteing for boxer and finestein to move in with you. and your mom.
lazs
Bush is more honest?
Hes afraid to swear oath and have his words recorded in a hearing
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Originally posted by Fishu
Bush is more honest?
Hes afraid to swear oath and have his words recorded in a hearing
You mean just like same conditions that President clinton and VP Al Gore testified under to the 911 commision? What were they hiding?????
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Looks like both kerry and busy are fuked, they got a hard job polishing the past on the way to the white house.
Everything sh.itty is coming up nothing good lol :confused:
Have fun and a good election digging up all the dirt you can about both of them :lol
Atleast it is good fun for the rest of the world seeing the comedy.
But kinda sad too, think the political agenda is long blown away and all people see is the crap beeing digged up.
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