Cleland Dropped A Political Grenade Upon Himself

Lady Ann has received lots of criticism and hate mail for her jabs at Max Cleland and his supposed heroism in battle.

I have heard it all and on this issue must stick with Ann. There has simply been too much published regarding the amputating incident. It really seems like a freak accident rather then heroism.

I do not agree with Lady Ann on every instance, but this time she gets it right.
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It is simply a fact that Max Cleland was not injured by enemy fire in Vietnam. He was not in combat, he was not -- as Al Hunt claimed -- on a reconnaissance mission, and he was not in the battle of Khe Sanh, as many others have implied. He picked up an American grenade on a routine noncombat mission and the grenade exploded.

In Cleland's own words: "I didn't see any heroism in all that. It wasn't an act of heroism. I didn't know the grenade was live. It was an act of fate." That is why Cleland didn't win a Purple Heart, which is given to those wounded in combat. Liberals are not angry because I "lied"; they're angry because I told the truth.

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