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→First Purple Heart: I don't believe SBVT has argued that a friendly fire wound does not merit a PH; they've just sort of left that implication hanging. if so, it contradicts military regs. |
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[http://nytimes.com/2004/08/20/politics/campaign/20swift.htm]
SBVT also points to the narration of a subsequent event in ''Tour of Duty'' (pp. 188-189) as evidence. Brinkley opens the account of a four-day cruise by telling us how "Kerry —who had just turned 25 on December 11, 1968— was a fine leader of his men". He goes on to quote Kerry's reflections in his notebook: "A cocky feeling of invincibility accompanied us up the Long Tau shipping channel because we hadn't been shot at yet, and Americans at war who haven't been shot at are allowed to be cocky." SBVT argues that Kerry's journal entry shows that the incident for which Kerry received a Purple Heart could not have involved enemy fire. [http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040825-125217-7993r.htm] Others argue that Kerry was referring to ambushes, a common misfortune for Swift Boats which Kerry had not yet suffered.
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