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Home Front: Politix
Fmr Lt Cmdr says Kerry Purple Heart "minor"
2004-04-14
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry insisted on being awarded his first Purple Heart in Vietnam event though his injury amounted to no more than a "fingernail scrape," his commanding officer at the time now says. Retired Lieutenant Commander Grant Hibbard tells the Boston Globe that he can still recall Kerry’s wound, and that "it resembled a scrape from a fingernail," the paper said. "I’ve had thorns from a rose that were worse," Hibbard insisted. Still, the former Navy man remembered that Kerry insisted on receiving a Purple Heart for the wound he said was incurred during a Dec. 3, 1968 skirmish with Viet Cong near Cam Ranh Bay. "He had a little scratch on his forearm, and he was holding a piece of shrapnel," Hibbard told the Globe. "People in the office were saying, `I don’t think we got any fire,’ and there is a guy holding a little piece of shrapnel in his palm."
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