How Dole got his first purple heart.... by Ridgeway, Village Voice link.

[henslee]

Excerpt from article titled "Scratching the Surface....Dole's own first Purple Heart doesn't exactly made you bleed for him"


"As we approached the enemy, there was a brief exchange of gunfire. I took a grenade in hand, pulled the pin, and tossed it in the direction of the farmhouse. It wasn't a very good pitch—remember, I was used to catching passes, not throwing them. In the darkness, the grenade must have struck a tree and bounced off. It exploded nearby, sending a sliver of metal into my leg—the sort of injury the Army patched up with mercurochrome and a Purple Heart."

link....

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0434/mondo5.php