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Posted on 01/29/2007 1:14:58 PM PST by LibWhacker
Dale Noyd, a former U.S. Air Force captain and outspoken conscientious objector of the Vietnam War, died this month in Seattle at the age of 73.
The decorated fighter pilot spent time in both federal and military court defending his right to oppose the Vietnam War, a decision he embraced up until his death on Jan. 11 from emphysema, The New York Times said.
Noyd first took his antiwar efforts in front of a federal court in 1967, before having to defend his beliefs over a military court martial.
Charged with refusing to train a pilot to serve in Vietnam, Noyd was forced to retire from the military with a dishonorable discharge.
"My three-year assignment in an operational fighter squadron -- with the attendant capacity for inflicting terrible killing and destruction -- was based on the personal premise that I was serving a useful deterrent purpose and that I would never be used as an instrument of aggression," he wrote in his resignation.
The paper said he is survived by his son, Erik; a daughter, Heather Taylor; his brother, Gus; and five grandchildren.
Well Noyd now gets to explain his objections to two million Cambodian souls lost in "The Killing Fields."
Well MAYBE if he would have flown his plane in Vietnam it MIGHT have saved a few of my friends...he is now doing the dirt dance..I have very little pity for him....he was a coward.
Meadow Muffin
Not to mention the 58,000 who gave all.
Exactly. And they did not die in vain. Their sacrifice helped ultimately to bring down The Berlin Wall, though at the time people couldn't have imagined it. But if we did not fight in Vietnam, that Wall would still be up.
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His Purpleness Prince is indeed doing the Super Bowl halftime show this year.
Good, he can join Father Drinan in Hell........
Avoid the Noyd!
Rust in pieces for being part of the problem.
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