Reply #10: A wound is a wound in action. (and link to snopes debunking) [View All]

[onehandle]

He was in ACTION. Under ENEMY FIRE!

F*ck those chickenhawks!
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John Kerry was (first) wounded in his first significant combat action, when he volunteered for a special mission on 2 December 1968:

"The "stinging piece of heat" Kerry felt in his arm had been caused by a piece of shrapnel, a wound for which he was awarded a Purple Heart. The injury was not serious — Brinkley notes that Kerry went on a regular Swift boat patrol the next day with a bandage on his arm, and the Boston Globe quoted William Schachte, who oversaw the mission and went on to become a rear admiral, as recalling that "It was not a very serious wound at all.""

http://www.snopes.com/politics/kerry/service.asp