U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords has received a Purple Heart after being shot in the head by a would-be-assassin while meeting with constituents in Tucson, Arizona, on January 8.

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With visions of sugar plums dancing in his head, he first sees nothing but purple mountain majesties and amber waves of grain.

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But Paul Jesson's Sir Toby, belching and farting on a purple sofa with the doddering, death's-head Aguecheek of David Bradley, is no jolly knight.

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Here is someone who fought and bled for his country, who enlisted as a volunteer to serve and fight in Vietnam, who was awarded the Purple Heart twice, who then served in the VA and as head of USO, and then as a United States senator, and since then as an advisor to the President on intelligence matters on the Intelligence Advisory Board.

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