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... The Navy later argued that Boorda had indeed earned the right to wear the two

1996 Admiral Jeremy "Mike" Boorda, 56, fraudulent medal wearer, suicide ^top^
      The only sailor to climb from the lowest enlisted ranks to that of four-star Navy admiral, Boorda was about to be questioned by a reporter about his right to wear two "Valor" medals when he drove back to his home, wrote a suicide note "to my sailors," and stepped into his garden, where he fatally shot himself in the chest.
      Appointed chief of naval operations by President Bill Clinton in 1994, Boorda had served on two US destroyers during the Vietnam War, and thought that this service authorized him to wear the two "V" decorations, which signified service in combat.
      In 1995, after being advised by the Navy’s office of awards and special projects that he was not entitled to wear the decorations, he immediately removed them. On May 16, 1996, with Newsweek magazine about to publish an article exposing his questionable claims to combat service, Boorda killed himself. The Navy later argued that Boorda had indeed earned the right to wear the two Valor medals. http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/all42day/history/h4may/h4may16.html

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Boorda was much, much too tough to let something like that snafu get him down IMHO. Also, the way he died left a lot of questions.

He wouldn't go along with the Clinton admin's desires as regarded the sharing of potentially sensitive data and exercises with th PLAN as I understood it at the time...and then he was dead.

I'm brand new to this forum. Sorry for being repetitive. I'm a newbie.. Good to know I'm not alone on this subject. Before now, I had nobody to talk to about it. I've been an admirer of Hackworth for a long time but I cannot deal with his politics anymore. As an ex-Marine myself during the Reagan years, I was familiar with Admiral Boorda, but not personally.I know he was a good man and meant no disrespect.

If Hack does'nt pursue Kerry"s medals with the same elan he did with Boorda, his last shread of credibility, with me anyway, is gone.