This from The Globe and Mail, September 1, 2004: [A Republican convention delegate] distributed a mocking reference to Mr. Kerry’s medals: bandages with tiny purple hearts stuck to them.

“It was just a self-inflicted scratch, but you see I got a Purple Heart for it,” was the message attached to the bandages passed around the convention until Republican chairman Ed Gillespie intervened.

Terry McAullife, chairman of the Democratic National Committee said it was “inexcusable” to mock Mr. Kerry’s “service and sacrifice”. But the concerted effort to portray Mr. Kerry as a fake hero who later turned on his country as an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War has had an impact on the campaign…

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