I believe that as a child he was wounded by the tusk of a wild boar when he was out hunting with some relatives (grandfather and uncle), and that wound left a scar on him.
<span>Kennedy's claim in this excerpt was that since the US was capable of developing the technology to put a man on the moon and return him safely to earth before the end of the 1960s. This would prove that the US was better than the Soviet Union.</span>