It's good to see this is getting some press. Buyer's remorse is kicking in and soon the DNC's going to have to start whispering sweet nothings in this guy's ear.
A former Navy doctor who says he treated Sen. John Kerry for the wound that led to his first Purple Heart in Vietnam said Tuesday that several of Kerry's crewmates told him at the time that the injury did not occur in battle.
Dr. Louis Letson, a retired Alabama physician who was medical officer at the Naval Support Facility at Cam Ranh Bay, said the crew's "confided" story contradicted Kerry's own report in December 1968 that he was wounded during a river firefight between his Swift boat and Vietcong gunmen ashore.
The doctor's account surfaced as part of a barrage of criticism of Kerry by former Swift gunboat officers who gathered in Washington to press the likely Democratic nominee to authorize the release of his wartime records to the public.
Posted by floridacracker at May 6, 2004 08:16 AM