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Ft. Hood Victims Shamefully Denied Purple Hearts
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Posted on 04/01/2013 4:58:57 PM PDT by raptor22
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To: Still Thinking; StopGlobalWhining; Straight Vermonter; Tampa Caver; TChris; ...
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posted on
04/01/2013 8:05:49 PM PDT
by
raptor22
(Visit my blog at True Conservatives on Twitter: http://t.co/IKpP3cwq)
To: raptor22
I get mad every time I read this story. Our people are being jerked around and not treated fairly, and this guy should have been swinging from a rope years ago.
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posted on
04/01/2013 8:22:16 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: raptor22
Meanwhile the shooter is STILL receiving his pay.
To: raptor22; Revolting cat!
We have a medal for those who remotely operate drones, but the Pentagon claims awarding the victims of the 2009 shooting with Purple Hearts would jeopardize the shooter's chance at a fair trial. Didn't the writer get the memo? He's the ALLEGED shooter. Saying otherwise might jeopardize his chance at a fair trial.
To: raptor22
The wont receive the Purple Heart Medal because they DO NOT rate the medal..as much as I LOATH the current administration, these soldiers do not fall into any of the criteria past or present. It was terrorism and not work place violence, but it doesnt change the criteria for the award. Correct me if im wrong (I know you will), not even those killed or injured on 9-11 at the Pentagon have received the medal.
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posted on
04/02/2013 2:43:40 AM PDT
by
TheGunny
To: TheGunny
It was terrorism and not work place violence, but it doesnt change the criteria for the award. Correct me if im wrong (I know you will), not even those killed or injured on 9-11 at the Pentagon have received the medal. I would expect the question of whether the soldiers at Fort Hood meet the criteria would depend upon how one classifies their attacker--as a deranged worker, a terrorist, or as a not-legitimately-uniformed enemy combatant. If the latter, I would think a Purple Heart would seem appropriate.
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posted on
04/02/2013 4:26:28 PM PDT
by
supercat
(Renounce Covetousness.)
To: supercat
I see only one problem in this episode....if given, you’d be giving a valued medal to a GI....for being wounded by another American GI (which the doc is). It opens up debate. There were a couple thousand GI’s in WW II wounded by their own associates...the same with episodes in Vietnam.
To: supercat
Not arguing that supercat. What Im saying is that all of you that are shouting it from the rooftops never make the comparison between the FH attack and what took place at the Pentagon on 9-11. Neither action at this moment in time rate the Purple Heart Medal. As much as loathe BS, its not about him or his administration.
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posted on
04/03/2013 3:00:22 AM PDT
by
TheGunny
To: TheGunny; supercat
I just moved to the Philippines. From Cebu, I rode the Supercat to Ormoc City. You sure get around!
Gunny, there are too many of you for me to count! I knew four (retired) Marines that went by the name "Gunny" at the Armed Forces Retirement Home-Gulfport. Of course, there were more that were Gunnery Sarges, but went by Clyde or whatever!
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posted on
04/03/2013 3:14:05 AM PDT
by
WVKayaker
("...once a bell is rung by a biased media, itÂ’s impossible to un-ring it."-Sarah Palin 11/7/12)
To: WVKayaker
LOL! Its actually Master Gunnery Sergeant (Master Gunny or Master Gunz) now...it was Gunny when I started my FR account. I would change it if I could:o) All Gunnery Sergeants have the title of “The Gunny” ascribed to them, one of respect and endearment;o)
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posted on
04/03/2013 4:04:21 AM PDT
by
TheGunny
To: TheGunny
Its actually Master Gunnery Sergeant Glad to hear the progression...
I had a good friend, MGSGT Walter Sparks, at AFRH-Gulfport. He and I burned a lot of good stogies together...
This be he... He got out just after the Viet Nam thingee!
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posted on
04/03/2013 5:15:30 AM PDT
by
WVKayaker
("...once a bell is rung by a biased media, itÂ’s impossible to un-ring it."-Sarah Palin 11/7/12)
To: TheGunny
...and this be me and he at the Cigar Shop in Biloxi for a Perdomo event!
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posted on
04/03/2013 5:18:05 AM PDT
by
WVKayaker
("...once a bell is rung by a biased media, itÂ’s impossible to un-ring it."-Sarah Palin 11/7/12)
If it happens in Boston it’s terrorism but if it happens in Texas it’s just workplace violence.
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posted on
04/15/2013 6:18:58 PM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
To: WVKayaker
Good afternoon, WVKayaker - I’d appreciate a note from you e-mailed to ken.crouse@sbcglobal.net regarding MGySgt Sparks. I was a Marine Security Guard in Vietnam in 1975 and would like to get in touch with MGySgt Sparks for the purposes of helping the Marines who served in his DaNang command remain in touch. I was in Saigon, but work on behalf of a non-profit that consists of the MSG’s in Vietnam in 1975.
Thanks, Ken Crouse, Secretary
Fall of Saigon Marines Assoc
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posted on
04/07/2014 3:26:43 PM PDT
by
SGN1975
(www.fallofsaigon.org)
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