Coulter v. Cleland
Washington Monthly, April, 2004 by Charles Peters
Ann Coulter recently attacked Max Cleland, the former senator from Georgia who lost three limbs in Vietnam, for "allowing Democrats to portray him as a war hero." Her point was that his injuries occurred when he picked up a live grenade, thinking it was one of his own that he had just dropped. "He could have done it at Fort Dix," she writes.
But, Ms. Coulter, it didn't happen at Fort Dix--or in the Air National Guard. It happened in Vietnam, where he was risking his life everyday, and where he had already won a Silver Star, one of the nation's highest awards for bravery in battle.
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