Posted on 12/07/2013 5:43:21 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Can you blame him? 13 hours on a plane with Joe Biden is not exactly a dream getaway.
85 year-old Merrill Newman, a war veteran, declined a ride home on Air Force Two with Joe Biden.
Newman was deported after being detained over his role in special forces operations in the Korean War six decades ago. (Daily Mail)
The Daily Mail reported:
An 85-year-old U.S. tourist detained in North Korea for six weeks for alleged ‘war crimes’ has landed back in San Francisco after catching a flight from Beijing.
North Korean state media said Saturday that Merrill Newman, a war veteran, was released because he had apologized for his alleged crimes during the Korean War and because of his age and medical condition.
Speaking after arriving at San Francisco International Airport, Mr Newman said he was glad to be back home and thanked U.S. and Swedish diplomats who worked to secure his release.
‘I’d like to thank the Swedish Embassy and the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. It was a great homecoming! I’m tired, pleased to be with my family. Thank you for all the support we’ve had.’
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, who is traveling in Seoul, welcomed the release and said he talked by phone with Newman in Beijing, offering him a ride home on Air Force Two. Biden said Newman declined because of a direct flight to his home state of California, which he took later Saturday.
Newman’s son, Jeffrey, said he spoke briefly with his father from Beijing and that he was ‘in excellent spirits and eager to be reunited with his family.’
wow
he declined a ride in the pimpliner??
At his age there in no need to be impressed.
I wouldn’t walk across the stree to spit on that Biden creature.
If Biden ever called me for any reason I’d hang up on him so hard it would make his ears bleed.
He didn’t want to catch the Bird Flu Biden is spreading all around Asia.
hard to impress people who have seen everything and learned enough life lessons
13 hours on a plane with Joe Biden
I bet Biden snores.
Can you imagine 12 hours trapped with Joe Biden?
Not as stupid as I thought..!
Well played...!
Worse than a North Korean re-education labor camp!
Based on guarding Air Force 1 and 2 when I was in my twenties, Mr. Biden has his own enclosed section of the plane (including a private bedroom), nowhere near the peasants.
6 weeks in a NK prison is better than 12 hours trapped on the second best plane in the United States with slow.
Says a lot for the man who will be recognized as one of the nations best vice presidents.
You can bet the old veteran still remembers what a commie looks like.
Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
Denied Plugs a photo op and the appearance that he was the hero is what he did. Good for him.
Says who?
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