Posted on 08/17/2014 10:35:47 AM PDT by Hojczyk
When two-star Major General Harold Greene, the highest-ranking officer killed in combat since Vietnam, was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery on Thursday, neither the President nor the Vice President were present.
The nominal Commander-in-Chief Barack Obama was playing a round at the Vineyard Golf Club with Valerie Jarrett’s cousin, Cyrus Walker, the World Bank president and former President of Darmouth College Jim Kim, and former lobbyist and ambassador Ron Kirk. The clownish Joe Biden was in the middle of the third day of a week long vacation in the Hamptons, which followed a week in Wyoming, which was preceded by a week at Rehoboth Beach in Delaware. Was this noticed? Yes, it was:
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I wouldn’t have wanted 0bola there either, especially after the POS refused to even acknowledge MG Greene’s death. Yet he was all over the dead thug from Ferguson, MO like maggots on Moochelle’s armpits.
(Credit to Qivuit for “0bola”)
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/tjmaude.htm
I guess BHO's Army have classified the 9/11 Thank you for the link.
attack on the Pentagon as workplace violence.
All true. It would have been all about him.
to what?
To turn away from one thing is to turn toward something else.
I was just a kid. Eighteen at the time in '75. I have followed military actions for quite a awhile. I have some remorse in my inaction.
This guy is a piece of crap, not remembering the service, but playing golf.
the attack on the Pentagon happened when George W. Bush was president. All of the active duty personnel killed and wounded received the Purple Heart. That means that President bush and ‘his Army’ considered their deaths and wounds as “received in combat.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Memorial
As far as I know, the award of the Purple Heart to those military members has NOT been rescinded by the current administration.
Sorry;-)
Where were the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
Oh, I agree that it was a slap in the face to the family but I,personally,wouldn’t have wanted the POS there.
“If I had a son, I wouldn’t want him to play football, er, war.”
Or, perhaps, “If I had a son, I wouldn’t want to him to defend this country.”
GENERAL OFFICERS KILLED OR DIED IN THEATER VIETNAM WAR FORWARD
AS OF 5 AUGUST 2014
Compiled by
US Army Center of Military History
BG Alfred Judson Force Moody, USA, March 19, 1967, Heart Attack.
Major General Bruno Hockmuth, USMC, November 14, 1967. Helicopter Crash.
BG Edward B. Burdett, USAF, November 18, 1967. Died as POW.
Major General William J. Crumm, USAF, 9 July 1968. Mid-air Collision.
Major General Robert F. Worley, USAF, 23 July 1968. Aircraft crash.
Major General Keith L. Ware, USA, 13 September 1969. Helicopter shot down.
BG William Ross Bond, USA, 1 April 1970. Killed by sniper.
BG Carroll Edward Adams Jr., USA, May 12, 1970, Helicopter crash.
MG John Albert B. Dillard, USA,12 May 1970, Helicopter shot down.
MG George W. Casey, USA, 7 July 1970. Helicopter crash.
RADM Rembrandt C. Robinson, USN, May 8, 1972. Crash at sea.
BG Richard J. Tallman, USA, 9 July 1972. Artillery shelling.
BG Charles J. Girard, USA, January 17, 1970, died of Illness.
LTG Timothy J. Maude, USA, September 11, 2001, died in Pentagon attack.
MG Harold J. Greene, USA, August 5, 2014, killed in Afghanistan
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