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" " I signed that letter because I , too felt a deep sense of betrayal that someone who took the same oath of loyalty as I did as an officer in the United States Navy would abandon his group here ( points to group photo ) to join this group here ( points to VVAW protest photo ) , and come home and attempt to rally the American public against the effort that this group was so valiantly pursuing . In this I see a potential echo to the " John Kerry ate my pizza " story — did Senator Kerry chow down on the pizza knowing it was meant for the pilots , or did he operate under the belief that it had been thoughtfully supplied as a snack for him , a visiting dignitary ? Despite this , most felt that the project was worthwhile , as they had learnt a great deal and several of them indicated that they were interested in following a career in GIS ( pers.comm M.E.Hlongwane ; N.Nsibande & O.M.Baloyi ) . President Bush 's surprise morale-boosting Thanksgiving Day trip to Baghdad to share holiday dinner with U.S. troops serving in Iraq garnered most of the headlines , U.S. Senators Hillary Clinton of New York and Jack Reed of Rhode Island were also dining with servicemen far from home in Afghanistan on Thanksgiving , and also paid visits to U.S. civilians and troops stationed in Baghdad the next day . He dropped out of Vanderbilt shortly thereafter . This also includes the Agents vehicles and repairs , gas , meals , days off , paid vacation , and medical plan visits etc per agent . The " stinging piece of heat " Kerry felt in his arm had been caused by a piece of shrapnel , a wound for which he was awarded a Purple Heart . The fact that an idea as potentially radical as the PRSP initiative got through the Boards of the IMF and World Bank in September 1999 is due largely to the level of ownership felt for the idea by various policymakers ( including staff and management in the IFIs , bilateral donors and the NGO community ) , due to its emergence in a variety of debates and places over the late 1990s . Kerry felt a piece of hot shrapnel bore into his left leg .