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2005-05-05 19:40 | User Profile
R.I.P.
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2005-05-05 20:18 | User Profile
R.I.P.
Hack's anti-war articles on the Debacle in Iraq were always good reads, especially coming from a man who saw the grotesque horrors of war up close.
2005-05-05 20:57 | User Profile
Oh, sh*t...
2005-05-05 21:16 | User Profile
DefenseWatch 05.05.2005
Col. David. H. Hackworth, 1930-2005 Legendary U.S. Army Guerrilla Fighter, Champion of the Ordinary Soldier
Washington, D.C., May 5, 2005 ââ¬â Col. David H. Hackworth, the United States Army's legendary, highly decorated guerrilla fighter and lifelong champion of the doughboy and dogface, ground-pounder and grunt, died Wednesday in Mexico. He was 74 years old. The cause of death was a form of cancer now appearing with increasing frequency among Vietnam veterans exposed to the defoliants called Agents Orange and Blue.
Col. Hackworth spent more than half a century on the country's hottest battlefields, first as a soldier, then as a writer, war correspondent and sharp-eyed critic of the Military-Industrial Complex and ticket-punching generals he dismissed as "Perfumed Princes."
He preferred the combat style of World War II and Korean War heroes like James Gavin and Matthew Ridgeway and, during Vietnam, of Hank "The Gunfighter" Emerson and Hal Moore. General Moore, the co-author of We Were Soldiers Once and Young, called him "the Patton of Vietnam," and Gen. Creighton Abrams, the last American commander in that disastrous war, described him as "the best battalion commander I ever saw in the United States Army."
Col. Hackworth's battlefield exploits put him on the line of American military heroes squarely next to Sgt. Alvin York and Audie Murphy. The novelist Ward Just, who knew him for forty years, described him as "the genuine article, a soldier's soldier, a connoisseur of combat." At 14, as World War II was sputtering out, he lied about his age to join the Merchant Marine, and at 15 he enlisted in the U.S. Army. Over the next 26 years he spent fully seven in combat. He was put in for the Medal of Honor three times; the last application is currently under review at the Pentagon. [B]He was twice awarded the Army's second highest honor for valor, the Distinguished Service Cross, along with 10 Silver Stars and eight Bronze Stars. When asked about his many awards, he always said he was proudest of his eight Purple Hearts and his Combat Infantryman's Badge.[/B]
A reputation won on the battlefield made it impossible to dismiss him when he went on the attack later as a critic of careerism and incompetence in the military high command. In 1971, he appeared in the field on ABC's "Issue and Answers" to say Vietnam "is a bad war ... it can't be won. We need to get out." He also predicted that Saigon would fall to the North Vietnamese within four years, a prediction that turned out to be far more accurate than anything the Joint Chiefs of Staff were telling President Nixon or that the President was telling the American people.
With almost five years in-country, Col. Hackworth was the only senior officer to sound off about the Vietnam War. After the interview, he retired from the Army and moved to Australia.
"He was perhaps the finest soldier of his generation," observed the novelist and war correspondent Nicholas Proffit, who described Col. Hackworth's combat autobiography, About Face, a national best-seller, as "a passionate cry from the heart of a man who never stopped loving the Army, even when it stopped loving him back."
Having risen from private by way of a battlefield commission in Korea, where he became the Army's youngest captain, to Vietnam, where he served as its youngest bird colonel, he never stood on rank.
From the beginning his life was a soldier's story. He was born on Armistice Day, now Veteran's Day, in 1930. His parents both died before he was a year old and the Army ultimately stood in for the family he never had. His grandmother, who rescued him from an orphanage, raised him on tales of the American Revolution and the Old West and the ethos of the Great Depression. After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, he got his first military training shining shoes at a base in Santa Monica, where the soldiers, adopting him as mascot, had a tailor cut him a pint-sized uniform. "At age 10 I knew my destiny," he said. "Nothing would be better than to be a soldier."
He always credited his success in battle to the training he received from the tough school of non-coms who won World War II, hard-bitten, hard-drinking, hard-fighting sergeants who drilled into him the basics of an infantryman's life: sweat in training cut down on blood shed in battle; there was nothing wrong with being out all night so long as you were present for roll call at 5 a.m., on your feet and in shape to run five miles before breakfast in combat boots.
In Korea, where he won his first Silver Star and Purple Heart before he was old enough to vote, he started his combat career in what he later called a "kill a commie for mommie" frame of mind. He was among the first volunteers for Korea and later for Vietnam, where he perfected his skill. "He understood the atmosphere of violence," Ward Just observed. "That meant he knew how to keep his head, to think in danger's midst. In battle the worst thing is paralysis. He mastered his own fear and learned how to kill. He led by example, and his men followed."
Just met him in the ruins of a base camp in the Central Highlands in 1966, where he was a major commanding a battalion of the 101st Airborne. "He was compact, with forearms the size of hams. His uniform was filthy and his use of obscenity was truly inventive." What struck the journalist most forcefully was "his enthusiasm, his magnetism, his exuberance, his invincible cheerfulness."
To young officers in Vietnam and long afterwards, he presented an unforgettable profile in courage. ""Everyone called him Hack," recalled Dennis Foley, a military historian and novelist who first saw him in action with the 1st Battalion of the 327th Infantry in 1965. "He was referred to by his radio call sign of 'Steel Six.' He was tough, demanding and boyish all at the same time, stocky with a slightly leathered complexion. His light hair and deep tan made it hard for us to tell how old he was. He wore jungle fatigue trousers, shower shoes, a green T-shirt and a Rolex watch. In the corner of his mouth was a large and foul smelling cigar. As we entered the tent, he was bent over a field table looking at a map overlay and drinking a bottle of San Miguel beer."
With Gen. S.L.A. "Slam" Marshall, he surveyed the war's early mayhem and compiled the Army's experience into The Vietnam Primer, a bible on a style of unconventional counter-guerrilla tactics he called "out gee-ing the G." His finest moment came when he applied these tactics, taking the hopeless 4/39 Infantry Battalion in the Mekong Delta, turning it into the legendary Hardcore Battalion. The men of the demoralized outfit saw him at first as a crazy "lifer" out to get them killed. For a time they even put a price on his head and waited for the first grunt to frag him.
Within 10 weeks, the fiery young combat leader had so transformed the 4/39 that it was routing main force enemy units. He led from the front, at one point getting out on the strut of a helicopter, landing on top of an enemy position and hauling to safety the point elements of a company pinned down and facing certain death. Thirty years later, the grateful enlisted men and young officers of the 4/39, now grown old, are still urging the Pentagon to award him the Medal of Honor for this action. So far, the Army has refused.
On leaving the Army, Col. Hackworth retired to a farm on the Australian Gold Coast near Brisbane. He became a business entrepreneur, making a small fortune in real estate, then expanding a highly popular restaurant called Scaramouche. As a leading spokesman for Australia's anti-nuclear movement he was presented the United Nations Medal for Peace.
As About Face was becoming a best seller, he returned to the United States to marry Eilhys England, his one great love, who became his business and writing partner. He became a powerful voice for military reform. From 1990 to 1996, as Newsweek magazine's Contributing editor for defense, he covered the first Gulf War as well as peacekeeping battles in Somalia, the Balkans, Korea and Haiti. He captured this experience in Hazardous Duty, a volume of war dispatches. Among his many awards as a journalist was the George Washington Honor Medal for excellence in communications. He also wrote a novel, Price of Honor, about the snares of Vietnam, Somalia and the Military-Industrial Complex. His last book, Steel My Soldiers' Hearts, was a tribute to the men of the Hardcore Battalion.
He was a regular guest on national radio and TV shows and a regular contributor to magazines including People, Parade, Men's Journal, Self, Playboy, Maxim and Modern Maturity. His column, "Defending America," has appeared weekly in newspapers across the country and on the website of Soldiers For The Truth, a rallying point for military reform. He and Ms. England have been the driving force behind the organization, which defends the interests of ordinary soldiers while upholding Hack's conviction that "nuke-the-pukes" solutions no longer work in an age of terror that demands "a streamlined, hard-hitting force for the twenty-first century."
"Hack never lost his focus," said Roger Charles, president of Soldiers for the Truth. "That focus was on the young kids that our country sends to bleed and die on our behalf. Everything he did in his retirement was to try to give them a better chance to win and to come home. That's one hell of a legacy."
Over the final years of Col. Hackworth's life, his wife Eilhys fought beside him during his gallant battle against bladder cancer, which now appears with sinister regularity among Vietnam veterans exposed to Agent Blue. At one point he considered dropping their syndicated column, only to make an abrupt about face, saying, "Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive." The last words he said to his doctor were, "If I die, tell Eilhys I was grateful for every moment she bought me, every extra moment I got to spend with her. Tell her my greatest achievement is the love the two of us shared."
Col. Hackworth is survived by Ms. England, one step-daughter and two step-grandchildren, and four children and four grandchildren from two earlier marriages. At a date to be announced, he will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors.
Soldiers For The Truth is now working on legal action to compel the Pentagon to recognize Agent Blue alongside the better known Agent Orange as a killer and to help veterans exposed to it during the Vietnam War. Memorial contributions can be sent to Soldiers For The Truth either by internet or by mail to, P.O. Box 54365, Irving, California, 92619-4365.
[url]http://www.sftt.org/main.cfm?actionId=globalShowStaticContent&screenKey=cmpDefense&htmlCategoryID=30&htmlId=2634[/url] R.I.P., You earned it, Colonel.
2005-05-06 00:10 | User Profile
Why would he get treatment in Mexico of all places?
2005-05-06 00:36 | User Profile
Damn. He was a good guy. I used to see him regularly in Greenwich, CT, strolling down Greenwich Avenue with this wife, at the movie theater, and in Starbuck's. He was very friendly. R.I.P.
2005-05-06 14:45 | User Profile
Why would he get treatment in Mexico of all places?
Mexico has cancer treatment clinics which use medicines not yet approved by the FDA.
Many celebs have gone to Mexico for cancer treatment. I've never read of any being cured though. But some may have. I don't know.
2005-05-06 14:57 | User Profile
[QUOTE=CWRWinger]Why would he get treatment in Mexico of all places?
Mexico has cancer treatment clinics which use medicines not yet approved by the FDA. Many celebs have gone to Mexico for cancer treatment. I've never read of any being cured though. But some may have. I don't know.[/QUOTE] Yes. It's generally the treatment of last resort. Steve McQueen tried it when he was dying of mesothelioma.
2005-05-06 16:09 | User Profile
One of the very last truly great men has passed. When the ultimate moment came, I'm sure he laughed right in the face of the Grim Reaper, as he had on countless occasions in his legendary life.
He led from the front, at one point getting out on the strut of a helicopter, landing on top of an enemy position and hauling to safety the point elements of a company pinned down and facing certain death. Thirty years later, the grateful enlisted men and young officers of the 4/39, now grown old, are still urging the Pentagon to award him the Medal of Honor for this action. [COLOR=Red][SIZE=4]So far, the Army has refused.[/SIZE][/COLOR]
Hmm, I wonder why....it couldn't possibly be because he constantly held the feet of the defense-contractor-golden-parachute-upon-retirement Perfumed Princes to the fire, could it?
2005-05-06 16:42 | User Profile
I wasn't aware that he was dying, but this is a great loss indeed. Some of the best voices of reason against neocon adventurism came from the military, and Hackworth was the most eloquent of the lot. He will be missed.
2005-05-06 17:54 | User Profile
A sorely felt loss. R.I.P. Colonel. Keep giving 'em hell wherever you are.
[quote=xmetalhead]Hack's anti-war articles on the Debacle in Iraq were always good reads, especially coming from a man who saw the grotesque horrors of war up close.
I noticed that he vanished from FAUX News around the time of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. Apparently, he wasn't doing enough cheerleading to suit the suits at that loathsome network. The various parade of armchair generals they replaced him with don't even come up to his little toe, though their toadying is much more polished.
2005-05-06 18:11 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Sertorius]DefenseWatch
From 1990 to 1996, as [I]Newsweek[/I] magazine's Contributing editor for defense, he covered the first Gulf War as well as peacekeeping battles in Somalia, the Balkans, Korea and Haiti...
Over the final years of Col. Hackworth's life, his wife Eilhys fought beside him during his gallant battle against bladder cancer, which now appears with sinister regularity among Vietnam veterans exposed to [B]Agent Blue[/B]...
Soldiers For The Truth is now working on legal action to compel the Pentagon to recognize [B]Agent Blue [/B] alongside the better known Agent Orange as a killer and to help veterans exposed to it during the Vietnam War. R.I.P., You earned it, Colonel.[/QUOTE]Hackworth did the uncovering of the phony medals worn by the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Boorda. The fact that Boorda was a Jew mattered greatly to the people at [I]Newsweek [/I] who fired Hackworth soon after. Boorda display moral cowardice during the tailhook affair in Las Vegas and ruined the lives of men much braver than he.
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I knew I was not in an area where Agent Orange was used, but Agent Blue was. I guess I have something to look forward to.
2005-05-06 18:40 | User Profile
MST,
I noted the same thing. He was the one of the few persons I would watch the political kindergarden known as [I]Hannity and Colmes.[/I] Needless to say, on Hannity's radio show yesterday he didn't even see fit to note the passing of "our good friend, Col. Hackworth." I guess Hackworth to him is a "Clinton general", like he referred to Gen. Zinni. I knew his days were numbered on Fox News when he started disagreeing with Sean and started railing against the incompetents at Ft. Rumsfeld.
Edward,
I hope that isn't the case with you.
2005-05-06 20:20 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Sertorius]
Needless to say, on Hannity's radio show yesterday he didn't even see fit to note the passing of "our good friend, Col. Hackworth." [/QUOTE]
But Seany did make sure to keep us updated on the latest goings-on pertaining to the "Runaway Bride" national sensation.
2005-05-06 20:39 | User Profile
[QUOTE=MadScienceType] I noticed that he vanished from FAUX News around the time of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. Apparently, he wasn't doing enough cheerleading to suit the suits at that loathsome network. The various parade of armchair generals they replaced him with don't even come up to his little toe, though their toadying is much more polished.[/QUOTE]
MST, yes, Col Hackworth's brilliant intelligence simply shamed the Faux "News" Network's "star" personalities. I'll never watch FNN nor will I even click on their website anymore. They are a blackspot on the American soul.
[QUOTE=EDUMAKATEDMOFO]But Seany did make sure to keep us updated on the latest goings-on pertaining to the "Runaway Bride" national sensation.[/QUOTE] No surprise there, since his masters set Seany's discourse for each show. Sean Hannity's nose and mouth area is so brown and permanently stained, he really should wear a diaper on his face.
2005-05-07 04:53 | User Profile
Here's a tribute to Col. Hackworth by Charles Goyette. Some of you may recall that he was fired by Clear Channel for opposing the War for Israel and Oil. He notes that Hackworth also became persona non grata with the warmongers. [url]http://www.charlesgoyette.com/archive/index.cgi?2005-05-06-Bonus[/url]
XM,
You may be right about the diaper. I thought of him with a make up artist who would apply a whole roll of toilet paper to his face after his kiss ups.
2005-05-07 07:16 | User Profile
He will receive a military funeral at Arlington. I hope that it is broadcast on CSpan. All honor and glory to you, Colonel, and laurels on your grave, forevermore. We were honored to know you, in our time. :sad: [url]http://www.spirit-net.ca/wavs/taps.wav[/url] [url]http://web.infinito.it/utenti/i/interface/Mansions.mp3[/url]
2005-05-07 08:40 | User Profile
I was very sorry to hear this, as I always liked Col. Hackworth and his work. R.I.P.
2005-05-07 13:33 | User Profile
SG,
I wouldn't be surprised if he receives the same shabby treatment from this sorry crew as Col. John Boyd did.
2005-05-07 14:47 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Sertorius]SG,
I wouldn't be surprised if he receives the same shabby treatment from this sorry crew as Col. John Boyd did.[/QUOTE]
Doesn't matter, Sert. He belongs to the ages- and they are chaff. And they know it. Hack is in Valhalla now, or something like it. He's communing with Bobbie Lee and Georgie Patton, Alvin York and Colonel Boyd. We'll think of him often, and pass his name and honor to our sons, and our sons' sons. The chaff will be burnt and scattered.
2005-05-07 16:03 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Sather_Gate]Doesn't matter, Sert. He belongs to the ages- and they are chaff. And they know it. Hack is in Valhalla now, or something like it. He's communing with Bobbie Lee and Georgie Patton, Alvin York and Colonel Boyd. We'll think of him often, and pass his name and honor to our sons, and our sons' sons. The chaff will be burnt and scattered.[/QUOTE]
Our Indo-Aryan ancestors recognized Warriors as the next highest caste to the spiritual leadership of the Brahmins.
Contemporary America is dominated by the greedy, cowardly and treacherous Mercantile class...Colonel Hackworth is among heroes forever now; while we still endure the insolent bullying of the Casino Plutocracy.
2005-05-07 17:15 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Sather_Gate]Doesn't matter, Sert. He belongs to the ages- and they are chaff. And they know it. Hack is in Valhalla now, or something like it. He's communing with Bobbie Lee and Georgie Patton, Alvin York and Colonel Boyd. We'll think of him often, and pass his name and honor to our sons, and our sons' sons. The chaff will be burnt and scattered.[/QUOTE]As ever, Americans do not know the name of the bravest American of all, Benjamin Solomon. Putting aside his civilian dental practice, Solomon volunteered and served bravely as they say. Circumstances denied him his due recognition some 60 years ago, so they say. Please read below. Our President Bush enshrined Salomon for the ages[QUOTE] [url]http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:1mSidHhRlTYJ:www.medalofhonor.com/BenSalomon.htm+%22medal+of+honor%22+dentist&hl=en[/url] [CENTER]**President Bush signed the Bill to bestow the Congressional Medal of Honor on Ben Salomon.[/CENTER]
[B][CENTER]Ben Salomon and the Congressional Medal of Honor[/CENTER][/B]
May 1, 2002 THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, and welcome to the White House, and welcome to our beautiful Rose Garden. We gather in tribute to two young men who died long ago in the service to America. In awarding the Medal of Honor to Captain Ben Salomon and Captain Jon Swanson, the United States acknowledges a debt that time has not diminished...
President Harry S. Truman said he would rather have earned the Medal of Honor than be the Commander-in-Chief. When you meet a veteran who wears that medal, remember the moment, because you are looking at one of the bravest ever to wear our country's uniform. We're honored to welcome these gentlemen...
For Captain Ben Salomon, no living relatives remain to witness this moment. And even though they never met, Captain Salomon is represented today by a true friend, Dr. Robert West. Welcome, sir. (Applause.)
Five years ago, Dr. West was reading about his fellow alumni of the University of Southern California's Dental School. He came upon the story of Ben Salomon of the class of 1937, who was a surgeon in World War II, and was posthumously nominated for the Medal of Honor. The medal was denied on a technicality. Looking into the matter, Dr. West found that an honest error had occurred, and that Captain Salomon was indeed eligible to receive the Medal of Honor.
He earned it on the day he died, July the 7th, 1944. Captain Salomon was serving in the Marianas Islands as a surgeon, in the 27th infantry division, when his battalion came under ferocious attack by thousands of Japanese soldiers. The American units sustained massive casualties, and the advancing enemy soon descended on Captain Salomon's aid station. To defend the wounded men in his care, Captain Salomon killed several enemy soldiers who had entered the aid station.
As the advance continued, he ordered comrades to evacuate the tent and carry away the wounded. He went out to face the enemy alone, and was last heard shouting, "I'll hold them off, until you get them to safety. See you later."
[B][I]In the moments that followed, Captain Salomon single-handedly killed 98 enemy soldiers, saving many American lives, but sacrificing his own. As best the Army could tell, he was shot 24 times before he fell, more than 50 times after that. And when they found his body, he was still at his gun[/I]. [/B]
No one who knew him is with us this afternoon. Yet America will always know Benjamin Lewis Salomon by the citation to be read shortly. It tells of one young man who was the match for 100, a person of true valor who now receives the honor due him from a grateful country.[/QUOTE]President Bush must believe that Americans must now note appreciate the sacrifice of a Jewish dentist as the being the most significant individual effort in American history. He has surpassed Audie Murphy and Sergeant York. Dentist Salomon is now on the George Washington, John Wayne and Martin Luther King level. David Hackworth and his like should know and appreciate this fact.
This charade caused no protest from the professional veterans nor from an aroused citizenry. Incredible lies needed to bolster good feelings and lies for Jews did. American compliance in degrading our society continued.
2005-05-07 17:52 | User Profile
He'll be missed.
I'm surprised to hear he was born in '30. I thought he was in his 60s.
2005-05-08 04:41 | User Profile
[SIZE=6][COLOR=Red]R.I.P.[/COLOR][/SIZE] A great loss for America.
2005-05-08 11:21 | User Profile
[QUOTE=xmetalhead]Sean Hannity's nose and mouth area is so brown and permanently stained, he really should wear a diaper on his face.[/QUOTE]
I disagree. There is no need for that worthless thing to be concerned with such trifles. It should instead seek to do the one thing which can reclaim for it some minimal semblance of what an actual man might understand as personal honor; it should apologize for its crimes in its suicide note. There is no other communication from that creature I would consider accepting.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, I share in the general sadness pertaining to the death of Col. Hackworth. Our country can ill afford to lose those men, like Admiral James Webb and Gen. Anthony Zinni, who's military experience makes it much more difficult to disregard the truth when they are the ones courageously defying our loathsome enemies. Even if what he says is true, no real American of any substance gives a damn what Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has to say about Iraq. Hackworth was a man who could hope for a respectful reception from the membership of pro-war organizations (even if the often-slimey leaders of such organizations would be unlikely to have extended an invitation to anyone not willing to be anally gang-banged by Karl Rove, Jonah Goldberg, and Achmed Chalabi, in the Holy Name of the World's First Propositional Nation, of course).
2005-05-08 11:51 | User Profile
Hackworth was a critic of the U.S. government for many years, and an out-spoken opponent of the Iraqi conquest. Anyone who thinks he's going to be awarded a Medal of Honor must be asleep as the switch. But that does not matter. Why would a good man want anything from the likes of those who reign in Washington? The man for whom that city is named would shoot them all down like dogs, if only he could. I suspect Hackworth might well have been tempted in a similar direction, had he thought it viable (it isn't, of course, at least not presently, and if anyone asks my advice on the question, I will strongly urge them to refrain from engaging in any violent or otherwise illegal acts).
I'm sure the Jews all believe he's a Nazi for opposing their war (a war that will, I suspect, touch off a series of events that will eventually cause the utter destruction of the Jews themselves, a thought which no doubt occurred to Hackworth at some point, so they really attack and defame a man who, perhaps inadvertently, was giving them the very best of advice, much in the manner of a true friend).
Anything which comes from Washington is poison. The authentic Americans are aware of Col. Hackworth's value, and when we have reasserted ourselves over our homeland, and made it once again a haven for all that is good, as opposed to its present status as a rancid breeding ground for all that is evil, perhaps we shan't be too busy to properly acknowledge Col. Hackworth's courage in some symbolic way. But our reassertion of political authority, and the subsequent lawful execution of those criminals who have betrayed our soldiers in Iraq, will always be the greatest tribute we could hope to offer to men of Col. Hackworth's calibre, and I have no doubt, that if the Universe is structured in such a manner as to allow his consciousness to perceive such events as they transpire in a few short years, as they will, that he shall be most gratefully pleased to witness such a moment of sublime beauty within the human experience, as will the spirits of the many thousands of other patriotic & honorable warriors which will be watching the unfolding events alongside him.
2005-05-08 16:24 | User Profile
Bravo. You have written a credo we all can believe in, and apply, in these "interesting times".
[I]May you be re-born in interesting times.[/I]- ancient Chinese blood curse
2005-05-11 16:21 | User Profile
Soldiers for the Truth website has announced that Hack's memorial service will be at Arlington, 12 PM May 31. I hope that all military and civilians who can honor him and what he stood for can attend. :frown: Hack might just appreciate a good old-fashioned Celtic wake on his passing. Scotland Forever! and Erin go Bragh!
2005-05-12 02:18 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Kevin_O'Keeffe]... Anything which comes from Washington is poison. The authentic Americans are aware of Col. Hackworth's value, and when we have reasserted ourselves over our homeland, and made it once again a haven for all that is good, as opposed to its present status as a rancid breeding ground for all that is evil, perhaps we shan't be too busy to properly acknowledge Col. Hackworth's courage in some symbolic way. But our reassertion of political authority, and the subsequent lawful execution of those criminals who have betrayed our soldiers in Iraq, will always be the greatest tribute we could hope to offer to men of Col. Hackworth's calibre, and I have no doubt, that if the Universe is structured in such a manner as to allow his consciousness to perceive such events as they transpire in a few short years, as they will, that he shall be most gratefully pleased to witness such a moment of sublime beauty within the human experience, as will the spirits of the many thousands of other patriotic & honorable warriors which will be watching the unfolding events alongside him.[/QUOTE] Thank You Brother!
Very well said...
:cheers:
2005-05-14 01:16 | User Profile
I erred. Memorial service will be at 11 AM EDT, Tuesday, May 31, at Arlington National Cemetery, Bob Lee's home. [url]http://www.sftt.org/main.cfm[/url] [url]http://web.infinito.it/utenti/i/interface/Mansions.html#Down[/url]
2005-05-20 03:57 | User Profile
[QUOTE=edward gibbon]Hackworth did the uncovering of the phony medals worn by the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Boorda. The fact that Boorda was a Jew mattered greatly to the people at Newsweek who fired Hackworth soon after. Boorda display moral cowardice during the tailhook affair in Las Vegas and ruined the lives of men much braver than he.
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I knew I was not in an area where Agent Orange was used, but Agent Blue was. I guess I have something to look forward to.[/QUOTE] 1. Boorda was not CNO during Tailhook, Kelso was.
I am glad Col Hackworth exposed ADM Boorda for his petty fraud, sad that the ADM could not take it like a man and resign when his fraudulent conduct (he had to know better, he was a PN-personnelman- when he was a sailor, and he was Chief of Personnel for three years) was made public. The suicide was his last "it's all about me" statement.
The man he left to hang out to dry was Admiral Arthur. The details of that are disgusting.
2005-05-20 04:03 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Kevin_O'Keeffe]Our country can ill afford to lose those men, like Admiral James Webb and Gen. Anthony Zinni, who's military experience makes it much more difficult to disregard the truth when they are the ones courageously defying our loathsome enemies. [/QUOTE] Your semtiments appreciated, but . . .
James Webb left the USMC as a Captain. Was never an Admiral. Was Secretary of the Navy for a bit more than a year. Spent years trying to take care of his men, the men of his rifle company in Viet Nam and other vets. He's is one of the no-kidding "great Americans." (Hannity needs to stop using that term, it loses meaning on his lips.) Webb's latest book "Born Fighting" is on my wish list. Non-fiction.
General Zinni (USMC) speaks too frankly for the taste of many, I tend to listen to him over folks like Wesley Clark, Ollie the Lip, etc. He has the courage of his convictions.
A few good men indeed. Semper Fi.