Posted on 01/17/2006 8:32:14 PM PST by Calpernia
Murthas Mangled Medal Stories
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1560074/posts
"Murtha also told differing stories about when and where he was wounded in action. A Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story reported in 2002 that Murtha had facial lacerations. In 1994, the Uniontown (Pa.) Herald-Standard quoted Murtha saying he was wounded in the arm for one medal and my knee was banged up and my arm was banged up when a helicopter was shot down for the other. Then, Morano and Hall uncovered a June 1, 1967 report in the Johnstown (Pa.) Tribune-Democrat quoting from a letter from Murtha to his wife describing his injuries as being "struck in the ankle" by a "shot that ricocheted off the helicopter."
I have a question,who is in charge of Purple Hearts.My Dad had one.
Each branch of the service handles their own.
And you should hear them bitch about how Bob Dole was never court martialed for his failure to salute after getting the Purple Hearts, too.
[quickly ducks flames]
Seeing that I'm very proud of a full head of hair at almost 60, I'm loathe to shave it. Besides, any man who claims medals for superficial wounds after seeing badly wounded,true American Heroes is a p*ssy and coward in my book. Maybe someday I'll tell you what I really think of them and not hold back.
Nam Vet
If Murtha was such a war hero and all that, why didn't the rats consider nominating him for higher office than the house? Why wasn't he considered for VP over Algore or as Algore's running mate?
No one ever heard of him before the left found out how he hates the thought of our troops winning a war.
My husband who fought in Korea had two 2 inch scars that were 1/4 inch wide. He had no purple hearts, and he would never tell me how he got them, unlike other boyhood scars he did talk about. He suffered for many years from PTSD. Not all scars show unfortunately.
As to Murtha, Kerry, Cleland, Dole, etc., I don't know what is the truth of their situations. We do know they were in a warzone. Pres. Bush and VP Cheany were not. Their choice.
ping
BTTT
More about this here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1557630/posts
You sound like someone that would have been all for the American Freedom Memorial
I don't know or question the validity of Murtha's purple hearts or war record. He has used it for years to further his political career. I believe that any politician using his military service to actively do that should open that record for public scrutiny.
He reminds me of John McCain.
<< John Murtha and John Kerry .... far more resemble two piles of dog poop sitting in the park drawing flies with their foul odor than ..... >>
Didn't want the word "heroes" in the same sentence as "Murtha" and "Kerry."
The "military records" of both are overwhelmingly more the products of treasonous "Democrat" politics than they are in any way related to reality and/or connected to the military.
His own sedition, subversion and treason-related less-than-honorable-discharge record politically sanitized by the traitor, Jimmy-Bubbah Carter, Kerry's "Vietnam 'service' record" was an even more delusionally fantasized work of fiction than was that of the world's most dangerous dullard, the bible-school failure and way-too-typical functionally-illiterate "journalist," Al-Fredo Gore-leone.
And Murtha's much-vaunted "37 years of service" and "rank of colonel" turns out to have been a couple of years of doing what he was told followed by 35 years in the reserves spent essentially pursuing the machinations and fabricating the elements that came together in the entirely political creation of his present legend-in-his-own-play-lunch-time war-hero status.
Meanwhile, except when he is busy treasonously, mindlessly and bitterly critiquing his superiors, suborning dissent, and treasonously giving aid and comfort to our enemies -- and while even the corrupt, criminal-alien-"elected" racist-bigot, Loretta "Sanchez" Brixey and the idiot savant racist-bigot, Cynthia McKinney, sit on the house's Armed Services Committee -- the "Democrat" potty's genius military strategist "Lt Col" Murtha's, big bum but burnishes the back-bench.
Bah! Humbug!
Bull***t!
I read recently that Murtha, like Kerry, had requested these medals about 10 years later, after having been refused them by a commanding officer at the time.
>>>> want the word "heroes" in the same sentence as "Murtha" and "Kerry."
I don't want the word "heroes" in the same sentence as "Murtha" and "Kerry" either. But did you see the rest of post 9 or did you get tripped up on this sentence?
Not only is Murtha and Kerry being called heroes; but entrapped cowardess and personal struggle is being compared to Noble actions.
Here you go:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1557630/posts
Murtha's War Hero Status Called Into Question
>>>World War II Navy veteran Harry M. Fox, previously indicated that Murtha in 1968 personally asked Fox's boss, then-U.S. Rep. John Saylor (R-Pa.), for assistance in obtaining the Purple Hearts, but was turned down because Saylor's office determined that Murtha lacked sufficient evidence of wounds. Murtha later challenged Saylor for his House seat in 1968 and lost. Fox said he personally viewed Murtha's military records in 1968 as Saylor's aide.<<<<
Looks like those guys who dodged Vietnam were the smart ones. No war record to question = no problem.
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