To: jmstein7
He did all this while on a boat..........something is very smelly about this.
2 posted on
02/19/2004 12:01:32 PM PST by
OldFriend
(Always understand, even if you remain among the few)
To: Mich0127
Letter to Editor BUMP!
3 posted on
02/19/2004 12:02:12 PM PST by
jmstein7
(Real Men Don't Need Chunks of Government Metal on Their Chests to be Heroes)
To: OldFriend
I was wondering about that too. All this from a boat, and in only FOUR months! Man, was he ever BUSY!
29 posted on
02/19/2004 12:29:30 PM PST by
Enterprise
("Do you know who I am?")
To: OldFriend
He did all this while on a boat.My thought exactly! He was in the NAVY. The only time I've read that he beached the boat, whose crew...presumably, the gunner, had let loose a fusilage of firepower to firing from the shore, was to dash behind the on-shore hooch and shoot a wounded man....no one actually saw the action, however. He returned to the boat, according to the account, brandishing the enemy gun. For this action he received the silver star? Regulations say that there must be 2 witnesses for such an award to be given. Who wrote up the commendation? Hmmmmmmmmm.
To: OldFriend
Don't forget the other boat. The one he went sailing on.
JFK's boat
Put those two boats together and it explains why he got a bronze star, a silver star, three purple hearts and an early out.
47 posted on
02/19/2004 1:09:45 PM PST by
philetus
(Keep doing what you always do and you'll keep getting what you always get)
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