Letters to the Editor
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Awe, Grima, reading comprehension isn't your strong suit is it?
Can't spell "taliesan" without "lies"
"What about Chambliss? Gets out with a bad knee and then slams a person who had multiple amputated in war."
Cleland did not lose his limbs in battle.
You're lying again.
Further, it actually was in battle, the Battle of Khe Sanh. It was accidental, but it was in a battle. So Grima, you have been caught out in yet another lie.
Oh, and to the anonymous poster who claimed it was Cleland's grenade, it turned out later to have belonged to a rookie who was with him, who was wearing a jacket full of grenades with dangerously straight pins.
This from Wikipedia:
David Lloyd was a gung-ho, 19-year-old enlisted Marine, son of a Baltimore ship worker, who went to Vietnam because he "wanted to kill Communists."
On April 8, 1968, he was in a mortar pit on a hill near Khe Sanh when he heard an explosion. Shrapnel bounced off his flak jacket. He ran to the injured officer, a man named Max Cleland. 'Hold on there, captain,' Lloyd told Cleland. 'The chopper will be here in a minute.'
Lloyd took off his web belt and tied it around one of Cleland's shredded legs. When the medics arrived, he left to help another injured soldier — one of the two who had gotten off a helicopter with Cleland.
That soldier was crying. 'It was mine,' he said, 'it was my grenade.'
According to Lloyd, the private had failed to take the extra precaution that experienced soldiers did when they grabbed M-26 grenades from the ammo box: bend the pins, or tape them in place, so they couldn't accidentally dislodge. This soldier had a flak jacket full of grenades with treacherously straight pins, Lloyd says. "He was a walking death trap."[4]
Still not in battle, but definitely in a war and in a battle.