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Andy Stapp, Soldier Who Tried to Unionize the Military, Dies at 70
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| 9/15/2014
| WILLIAM YARDLEY
Posted on 09/15/2014 8:52:30 AM PDT by Borges
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posted on
09/15/2014 8:52:30 AM PDT
by
Borges
To: Borges
Because if there’s one thing America needs its a Military union to enforce union law. /s
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posted on
09/15/2014 8:54:19 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
To: Borges
His wife, Deirdre Griswold,”
...his ashes will be scattered over Wally World.
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posted on
09/15/2014 8:54:24 AM PDT
by
albie
To: Borges
Another commie bites the dust. Good.
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posted on
09/15/2014 8:55:35 AM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Illegals Are Getting Flat Screen TV's...you we aqqd.NOT TB Screenings!)
To: Borges
On this subject I always asked “who ever heard of the union army?” Nobody got my point.
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posted on
09/15/2014 8:58:22 AM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
To: Borges
I was in the Army in the 70’s and served in Vietnam in 69 and 70 and for the life of me, I can’t remember anything about this guy or his unionization movement.
To: Borges
reject what they viewed as illegal ordersMy understanding is that soldiers at present not only have such a right, they have an obligation to do so.
Which doesn't mean superiors will later agree a particular order was illegal.
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posted on
09/15/2014 9:00:35 AM PDT
by
Sherman Logan
(Perception wins most of the battles. Reality wins ALL the wars.)
To: Old Retired Army Guy
I never heard of a military unionization movement either
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posted on
09/15/2014 9:02:24 AM PDT
by
elpadre
(AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
To: Sherman Logan
I wonder if a unionized soldier would obey an illegal order to fire on anti union citizens?
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posted on
09/15/2014 9:03:50 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
To: Borges
... form a union among soldiers that demanded, among other things, the right to elect officers.... Try to imagine that disaster. Every officer would be a mono browed pinky ring wearing guy named Vinny. The 3rd no-show brigade would be guarding your left flank.
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posted on
09/15/2014 9:03:59 AM PDT
by
edpc
(Wilby 2016)
To: Old Retired Army Guy
There were rumors floating around that Obama was going to unionize the military.
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posted on
09/15/2014 9:05:07 AM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Illegals Are Getting Flat Screen TV's...you we aqqd.NOT TB Screenings!)
To: Old Retired Army Guy
Some guy I was with in Vietnam had a subscription to the LA Free Press. That’s where I heard about it.
The NVA’s coming through the wire, but he’s going on strike.
Right.
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posted on
09/15/2014 9:08:56 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: Old Retired Army Guy
I was in the Army in the 70s and served in Vietnam in 69 and 70 and for the life of me, I cant remember anything about this guy or his unionization movement.
Same with me.
Welcome home!
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posted on
09/15/2014 9:10:13 AM PDT
by
laplata
(Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
To: Borges
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posted on
09/15/2014 9:10:16 AM PDT
by
Bogey78O
(We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
To: Borges
"... Andy Stapp [...] demanded, among other things, the right to elect officers and reject what they viewed as illegal orders died on Sept. 3 in Manhattan. He was 70." I hope he gets to meet Gen. George Washington, US Army Inspector General Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben on his first day of boot camp in the afterlife.
The notion of elected officers didn't even survive the opening shots of the Revolutionary War.
To: Old Retired Army Guy
I was VN ‘67-’68 and (very) busy keeping my butt in one piece. Never heard a word of this union BS before or after my tour.
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posted on
09/15/2014 9:28:00 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Old Retired Army Guy
I was in the Army in the 70s and served in Vietnam in 69 and 70 and for the life of me, I cant remember anything about this guy or his unionization movement. Yep, never heard of him. I guess he didn't think you and I would be good union members.
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posted on
09/15/2014 9:30:55 AM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.)
To: Borges
By the early 1980s, Mr. Stapp had found a job teaching history at the Hudson School in Hoboken, N.J. He worked there for more than a quarter-century.
I AM surprised the Army didn't make him a grunt and send his pinko-commie @ss to 'Nam.
And I'm NOT surprised some Lib school district hired him to brainwash all the little skulls full of mush.
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posted on
09/15/2014 9:36:01 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Borges
I wonder if there is any connection to Scott Stapp, lead singer of Creed? I recall that his adoptive father was former military, but in NC, not NJ. Not all that common of a surname.
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
Will congress and O’bummer be at his funeral?
Is he being buried at Arlington?
Is he getting the presidential medal of freedom?
Is O’bummer taking time off from playing golf?
Inquiring minds want to know!
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posted on
09/15/2014 10:15:03 AM PDT
by
mj1234
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