Tammy Duckworth lost legs in service to country, Rep. Joe Walsh lost his mind

UPDATE Vote Vets wants Walsh to resign!
In fact, McCain released the book “Faith of My Fathers” focused on his military service and imprisonment in North Vietnamese POW camps while he was beginning his unsuccessful bid for the 2000 presidential nomination.

The veterans group Vote Vets is calling on Walsh to resign over his comments.

Tammy Duckworth lost legs in service to country, Rep. Joe Walsh lost his mind!
by Chaplain Kathie
OK this is about as bad as it gets. Joe Walsh said that Tammy Duckworth should talk about her service, the fact she lost limbs or even the fact she turned around and fought hard for other combat wounded disabled veterans. Walsh said "true heroes" don't talk about it.?

Rep. Joe Walsh criticizes Tammy Duckworth's military service



Maybe Walsh should tell that to Medal Of Honor Hero Sammy Davis. He says veterans need to talk about it.



It is fine to complain about someone's politics when running for re-election. It is fine to complain about other things you just don't agree with but when you stoop so low as to say that a veteran is not a true hero because she talks about it, just goes to show this man does not honor the service of the men and women risking their lives where people like him sent them.

The men and women serving this nation after 9-11 in combat was less than 1% of the population and even less were wounded but we can't take care of them? We can't because people like Walsh don't value their service.

Vote Smart Joe Walsh
Military Issues
2011
Women's Action for New Directions (WAND) and-WILL - Positions (House Only)
31%

Veterans Issues
2011
Vietnam Veterans of America - Positions 0%

Jul 3, 2012
Rep. Joe Walsh Says Iraq War Vet Opponent Talks Too Much to Be ‘True’ Hero
By Amy Bingham
ABC News

Rep. Joe Walsh’s Facebook page is flooded with negative comments today after the Illinois Republican said his opponent, Iraq War veteran Tammy Duckworth, was not a “true” hero because she often makes reference to her military service on the campaign trail.

Duckworth lost both her legs after an RPG attack in Iraq brought down the Black Hawk helicopter she was piloting in 2004. Walsh never mentions his own military service on the campaign stump. He never had any.

“My God, that’s all she talks about,” Walsh said of Duckworth’s military career in a video recorded at Walsh’s town hall speech Sunday and posted by Think Progress. “Our true heroes, the men and women who served us, my God, that’s the last thing in the world they talk about. That’s why we are so indebted and in awe of what they have done.”
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When I started this blog almost five years ago I said that politics would not come into it unless a politician did something for or against veterans. Well this one really tops all the "against" veterans I've ever heard!

Hero Marine Lance Cpl. Kyle Carpenter promoted

Wounded warrior Marine promoted, 19 months after grenade blast
JULY 3RD, 2012
POSTED BY DAN LAMOTHE

Then-Lance Cpl. Kyle Carpenter is shown here at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center during a November interview with Marine Corps Times. (Colin Kelly/Staff)

It was Nov. 21, 2010, when Lance Cpls. Kyle Carpenter and Nick Eufrazio were rocked with a grenade blast that changed both of their lives.

Nineteen months later, Carpenter’s miraculous recovery continues. Profiled in a Marine Corps Times cover story I wrote late last year, he has continued to heal slowly from life threatening injuries. The blast mangled his jaw, destroyed one of his eyes and most of his teeth and caused severe trauma to his right arm, which had severe tissue damage and more than 30 fractures.

Carpenter has been strikingly open about his recovery since, launching a Facebook page called Operation Kyle tracking his recovery.
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January 27, 2012
Marine Lance Cpl. Kyle Carpenter, injured by a grenade, discusses his recovery

September 24, 2011
U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. William Kyle Carpenter getting help from his neighbors

March 10, 2011
Marine Lance Cpl. William Kyle Carpenter, hero Marine honored

Army admits mistake in Special Forces MOS OEF OIF veteran

Army Pulls Candidate's Mistakenly-Awarded SF MOS
Military.com
by Bryant Jordan
Jul 04, 2012

The Army has revoked the Special Forces military occupational specialty of an Arkansas political candidate who claimed he served as a Green Beret in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Kenneth Aden, a Democrat running against incumbent Rep. Steve Womack for Arkansas' 3rd District, has said in interviews he served tours in Iraq and Afghanistan as a Green Beret, though a DD-214 and other documents he released to substantiate the claim only raised questions.

In a statement Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the Special Warfare Training Center at Fort Bragg, N.C., said Aden was dropped from Special Forces training in April 2008 "after failing twice to pass the Light Weapons Exam and Hands-on Mortar Exam."

Nevertheless the center in June 2008 erroneously issued an order awarding him the 18 B MOS – Special Forces Weapons Sergeant – and then failed to catch the mistake. When told last week that the Army called Aden's MOS order a mistake and had revoked it, campaign spokesman Vincent Leibowitz said Aden never received orders pulling the MOS.

That turns out to be true, since the Army only noticed and corrected its mistake after media attention focused on Aden's military background, according to training center spokeswoman Janice Burton.

Retired Special Forces Master Sgt. Jeff "JD" Hinton, who has exposed many phony veterans or troops who embellished their records, says Aden had to know all along that he never was Special Forces.
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Former FBI officer saw legions of angels at Flight 93 site

Former officer claims she saw angels at Flight 93
Woman has PTSD linked to her role in the investigation of the Sept. 11 terror attacks
By Joe Mandak
Associated Press
July 03, 2012

PITTSBURGH — A former FBI employee with post-traumatic stress disorder linked to her role in the investigation of the Sept. 11 terror attacks has written a book about seeing legions of angels guarding the Pennsylvania site where a hijacked airliner crashed.
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WWII veteran buried in cardboard box receives honor

Ceremony held for WWII vet initially buried in cardboard box
July 3, 2012

SUMTER COUNTY, Fla. — A World War II veteran, who was buried in a cardboard box, was laid to rest again on Tuesday and this time with military honors.

A ceremony was held Tuesday morning at Florida National Cemetery in Bushnell for Lawrence Davis Jr.

Dozens of veterans and a handful of dignitaries attended the service, which was something that did not happen in 2005 when Davis was first buried there.

A few months back, workers straightening headstones found Davis's bones one foot underground, with nothing left of the cardboard box he'd been buried in.

There was widespread outrage over his burial.
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