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...homeland security into a good old-fashioned counterpunch. "Thirty years ago, official Navy reports ... documented my service in Vietnam and awarded me the Silver Star, the Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts. Thirty years ago, this was the plain truth. It still is, and I still carry the shrapnel in my leg," he would declare. "I'm not going to let anyone question my commitment to defending America--then, now or ever." After drafting the speech and sending Kerry off to bed shortly before midnight, Cutter, Morehouse and Wade reconvened at Figs, an Italian place on Beacon Hill, to soak...
...CHARGE Kerry lied to get the first of three Purple Hearts. SBVT alleges that the wound was a minor, self-inflicted scratch. Kerry says on Dec. 2, 1968, he and his two crewmates that night fired on men on a riverbank. It's unclear if someone fired back, but shrapnel hit Kerry's arm. Louis Letson, a medical officer at the time, says that he treated Kerry's wound and that it was too small to justify a medal. William Schacte Jr. says he was on the boat that night and there was no enemy fire; he says Kerry...
...recovering very quickly. The pain is manageable,” said Meeks, who underwent surgery yesterday to remove a piece of shrapnel from...
Meeks, a former social studies concentrator in Lowell House, was injured when his convoy struck an improvised explosive device (IED) 15 miles west of Fallujah.Both of Meeks’ eardrums were punctured and a piece of shrapnel struck his right eye, Jinnett said...
...neatly arranged, well-swept tent as if to compare it with those of her messier neighbors. The proud woman's son Fahad Salaam, 15, was playing in the front yard of the family home in Fallujah a few weeks ago when he was killed by a piece of shrapnel from an American bomb. "Where are the human rights in Iraq now?" she asked me. "Where is the freedom? Where is the democracy...