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An article in the Boston Globe described the circumstances in which Purple Hearts were given to wounded Swift boat personnel in Vietnam:"'There were an awful lot of Purple Hearts — from shrapnel; some of those might have been M-40 grenades,' said George Elliott, Kerry's commanding officer. 'The Purple Hearts were coming down in boxes. Kerry, he had three Purple Hearts. None of them took him off duty. Not to belittle it, that was more the rule than the exception."[5]Thirty-six years later, [ Kerry's commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander Grant ] Hibbard, reached at his retirement home in Florida, said he can still recall Kerry's wound, and that it resembled a scrape from a fingernail. "I've had thorns from a rose that were worse," said Hibbard, a registered Republican who said he was undecided on the 2004 presidential race. http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/04/14/kerry_faces_questions_over_purple_heart/
An article in the Boston Globe described the circumstances in which Purple Hearts were given to wounded Swift boat personnel in Vietnam:
"'There were an awful lot of Purple Hearts — from shrapnel; some of those might have been M-40 grenades,' said George Elliott, Kerry's commanding officer. 'The Purple Hearts were coming down in boxes. Kerry, he had three Purple Hearts. None of them took him off duty. Not to belittle it, that was more the rule than the exception."[5]
Thirty-six years later, [ Kerry's commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander Grant ] Hibbard, reached at his retirement home in Florida, said he can still recall Kerry's wound, and that it resembled a scrape from a fingernail. "I've had thorns from a rose that were worse," said Hibbard, a registered Republican who said he was undecided on the 2004 presidential race.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/04/14/kerry_faces_questions_over_purple_heart/
