Prayers for the family. He said some bad things about Reagan in the 80s, but prayers nevertheless.
Did not like his politics, but he was a WWII hero flying B17s! Prayers up for him and his family!
Keep my name out of it.
He was never one of my favorite people, especially of my parents and grandparents.
My father died at Dougherty Hospice House on a cold and snowy day in December of 2010.
Mr. McGovern’s in good hands and hearts and may God bless him and his family. It’s not easy.
The man flew 35 combat missions in a B24 over Europe and won a Distinguished Flying Cross.I’ll respect him for that-even if his politics weren’t right later.
Despite his political career as a lifelong liberal, after his company went bankrupt in the 1990’s, he finally admitted the failure was in part due to the cost of dealing with federal, state and local regulations that made life difficult for small business.
guess how this will play out...
vote obama for mcgovern.
biden: george, stand up buddy...oh geez, what am i saying...
I was flying combat missions in Vietnam in 1972 when candidate McGovern was vowing to go to Hanoi on his knees while he was actually in Saigon badmouthing the South Vietnamese government. Later that year during the campaign McGoo stated in Life magazine that he distrusted the U.S. military far more than the Soviet or Red Chinese militaries and promised to cut the U.S. defense budget by 25% if elected.
After his presidential defeat in 1972 and again after his defeat for Senate reelection McGovern expressed his smoldering hatred for the unworthy American electorate who rejected his enlightened leadership.
After his WWII service (motivated solely by our alliance with the USSR), McGovern worked for the Henry Wallace campaign in 1948 against Harry Truman. Wallace was a true believer in socialism who would have sold this nation down the river to the Soviets.
Screw McGovern! He gave comfort & encouragement to our North Vietnamese enemies and prolonged our POW’s imprisonment and torture. No, I’m NOT sympathetic to his current state!
Now flame away!
good and bad things come in threes.
While I never agreed with his politics, I have some strange connections with McGovern. He spoke at my high school graduation and after the graduation came to my parent’s home for a reception. I still have a photo of him standing with me. I used to date a girl who worked in his field office in Pierre, SD and now he is in a hospice only a few blocks from my home. Funny how things are connected sometimes.
for what it’s worth...he did his duty in WWII