purple hearts

[ob]

Re: purple hearts

Originally posted by Fly Rod:<br /> If you are in a combat zone, with all your combat gear on and go out to a shanty town and visit a hut of ill repute, you run out of the hut, trip, and you have a simple fracture of the shin bone, would you exspect to get a "Purple Heart"???!!!!

You would at least have a purple shin.<br /><br />Hats off to gonfishn.

 

[rodbolt]

Re: purple hearts

yes but at least you will have had a purple helmet polish

 

[rodbolt]

Re: purple hearts

http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/youasked/073.htm a bit more on how it came to be

 

[gonfishn]

Re: purple hearts

No purple heart FR but after the incubation period had passed I would usually great them at sick call with about one million units of penicillin..If I was in a good mood i would let them hold the syringes till they thawed out..<br /><br />Then there were times when ole doc didn't.. <br /><br />Thanks GG and OB.

 

[KRS]

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Go here:<br /><br /> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6902610/#050209b <br /><br />and at the bottom of the page is a link for "Revoked Purple Hearts"<br /><br />Watch the interview of these two soldiers... and decide for yourself.

 

[NYMINUTE]

Re: purple hearts

I too would have passed

 

[Laddies]

Re: purple hearts

I can't say what is right under these conditions as while I served I was never under fire, but I think the miltary needs to be more careful in the future as it, it is a very important medal. Also I have alway found it amazing in the past to see officers awarded Medals that should have went to the dog face that earned them--Bob