Posted on 01/22/2017 10:37:36 AM PST by redcatcherb412
He helped make it possible to enslave millions of Vietnamese. No sympathy here and yes, I was a career Army Officer but post Vietnam.
I’m not even sure that you”earn” a Medal of Honor. Some people seem to have a bravery gene that clicks into action when it’s needed. You don’t think about yourself or your own mortality. Maybe you don’t think at all, you just do what has to be done. Whatever it is, very few have it but thank God they do.
On behalf of the men whose lives he saved, I will say thank you on their behalf for his service, and the things he did while serving.
And I will leave it at that.
+++++++++++++He helped make it possible to enslave millions of Vietnamese. No sympathy here and yes, I was a career Army Officer but post Vietnam++++++++++++++++
A little confusing equating your claim saving 20 grunts lives with enslavement of millions. A little bit of projection it seems. He was an unarmed chaplain who officiated in field church services and was present in a combat op that he ended up saving the soldiers. Unless you are aware of these 20 soldiers going back into combat enslaving millions of Vietnamese, your claim rings hollow at least to me. Maybe an undecorated fellow officers sour grapes, but who knows. I was just a PFC when I served with the chaplain. Thank you for your service career.
I don't know Toad, maybe they're just thinking of you and your buddy from Gay State?
Why are you bringing homos into this conversation anyway?.........That's just plain, well, weird.
Nope, you guessed wrong.......
An MOH recipient has the right to protest war after he/she has experienced its horrors...and in this HERO'S case, it was in a theater of war WITHOUT THE BENEFIT OF A WEAPON.
As far as your equally ignorant comment
But if he,particularly as a veteran of the Armed Forces,was among those chanting "Hey,hey...LBJ" then he contributed,as I said,to the bad guys winning.
More evidence that you didn't read the article. He didn't begin his anti-war advocacy until well after he left the priesthood in 1983...
I hope the MODS leave your comments up since everyone here needs to see your ignorance...........
“That’s just plain, well, weird. “
You brought anal into this, not me. THAT was weird. Just pointing out that homos do that. I know you’re not a homo, but still, come on, let’s leave butts out of this.
Hey Toad, since your comment was obviously in support of Gay State, what was YOUR contribution in the Vietnam war that would put you on the same level as Captain/Chaplain Liteky who gave five years of his life from 1966 to 1971 in defense of this country that would give not only YOU but Gay State the right to criticize him for his post Vietnam humanitarian choices?
——I’m not even sure that you”earn” a Medal of Honor. Some people seem to have a bravery gene that clicks into action when it’s needed. You don’t think about yourself or your own mortality. Maybe you don’t think at all, you just do what has to be done. Whatever it is, very few have it but thank God they do.——
With that statement the first thing popping into my mind was Audie Murphy or Sgt Alvin York. Two other MOH recipients that lived through their actions. Even though Chaplain Liteky was not a combatant as wasn’t Corporal Desmond T. Doss, as you stated, all of these men ‘had it’.
Hey you guys, let’s keep in mind the honorable actions of the Padre for which he was awarded the CMOH.
What he did and why later in life is immaterial to that fact. I am sure he had his reasons for his position regarding his award later on. I am a peace activist too, but always ready to fight (ideologically or physically) for that peace in or out of uniform.
I would carry his coffin if asked....
Greater love ( and often courage) has no man then he lay down his life for his friends (regardless of the politics that put him in that situation).
“De Oppresso Liber”
People process the horrors of war very differently. Gene Roddenberry, Kurt Vonnegut and Rod Serling all served honorably during WWII and adopted pacifist viewpoints afterwards. While I may not agree with their opinions, I can respect the path they may have taken to arrive at them.
Makes me wonder if he has a VA provided marker whether it will have the MOH engraved on it.
Your comment is better directed towards Code Toad and Gay State.....I've already been voicing my disgust at their comments.
My guess is that he would.
Those markers are provided by and placed by the Veterans of Foreign Wars or the American Legion.
The guys I know in those organizations would not hold this man’s post service actions against him in deciding to put up the marker.
His actions on the field of battle speak to his love of his fellow soldiers and that is what counts to those men.
Obviously I have no problems at all with his actions in the field in Vietnam and I salute him there. Its his activities when he came home to join the pro communists that negates everything before in my mind. And yes, helping NV win the war in our streets did lead to the enslavement of millions and death of many as well.
Maybe an undecorated fellow officers sour grapes.... Thank you for your service career. Talk about ringing hollow. I don’t need your thanks after a statement like that and no, I was not awarded the MOH if that is what you mean.
-—He helped make it possible to enslave millions of Vietnamese-—
This quote is confusing coming from a career Army Officer about a fellow Officer, a Captain, a non-combatant that never took a life and was a Roman Catholic Priest attending to the spiritual needs in the field of soldiers in his unit, along with his actions resulting in his attaining the MOH. Thus my sour grapes reference as most military stand with their brothers, not denigrate them, and I consider your statement to reduce the perception of the Chaplains accomplishment. Yet, I did mean the thank you for a full service career which is not an easy career during war or peacetime. Unless the statement was in jest, I can only think that you think Chaplain Litekys award was not earned justly.
His Vietnam service is worthy of everything he received. But as we used to say in the military, one “ah shi+” wipes out 10 attaboys.
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