windywave wrote:
patf wrote:
big kahuna wrote:
Just saw this one:BK do you think the Heartbreak Fridge is appropriate?
By all accounts this guy served his country for 4 years, left the military on good terms. If you don't like what he said and did last weekend, I understand that, but he did not say he was a Vietnam vet, the media did. My own brother spent 20 years in the Air Force. Closest he got was Thailand and Guam during the Vietnam war. I certainly am proud of him serving his country. Does this guy deserve your mockery?
You're factually wrong. He claimed he went to Vietnam and he was discharged with something other than honorable (I'm ignoring the recon ranger thing completely)
At this point, with what we've learned about Phillips, I think the graphic's pretty appropriate. Honestly, I'm not even sure he could be buried in his old Marine Corps service dress uniform or have the flag draped over his casket or receive any military funeral honors from the Marine Corps, let alone the array of veterans benefits available to those service members who were honorably discharged. It would all depend on the characterization of his discharge. If it was under other than honorable conditions or lower, maybe not.
To a lot of civilians, this sort of stuff might seem really ticky tack, but to many military service members it matters, for a lot of reasons.
"Politics is just show business for ugly people."
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big kahuna: Jan 27, 19 20:09