he plays up (or milks?) the Purple Heart award, altho he also admits either in the book or maybe on the internet somewhere that it was from flying debris that hit him when a wall or something got blown up by car bomb or IED or something. In other words, it wasn't like he was driving a Humvee into enemy territory and took rounds

all in all the book was a good read, I read it for free at the bookstore in one sitting. didn't intend to, just sat down to peruse it and I ended up reading it right then and there