CNN BIG BULLY !
Posted on 01/21/2019 4:58:49 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
Native American elder Nathan Phillips, in his own words
Native American elder Nathan Phillips, who has made headlines everywhere after a video showed him in a face-off with a Catholic school student in front of the Lincoln Memorial, spoke at length with CNN the day after the incident. Phillips described what he felt was hatred coming from the young people in the crowd, who are pupils at Covington Catholic School in Kentucky and who had traveled to the nation's capital to attend the March for Life rally, also held Friday. The interview was conducted Saturday after the video went viral. Since the interview, the diocese in charge of the school has denounced the students' actions, a lawmaker has defended them and the boy in the video, Nick Sandmann, has denied characterizations of his and his classmates' behavior and said he was simply standing in front of Phillips to let him know he wouldn't be baited into an altercation.
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CNN BIG BULLY !
He called himself a Vietnam Veteran in the article and, yeah, it looks like that may be as truthful as the rest of his interview.
They are not “The Press” they are CP USA and DNC propagandists. Call them such.
He later moved to Washington DC.[7]
Phillips joined the Marine Corps, serving in the Vietnam War as a Recon Ranger and Infantryman.[8][9][10][11][12][13]
The footnotes have NOTHING to do with supporting his statement of being a Marine "Recon Ranger and Infantryman".
Thank you! A Ranger is a US Army designation. Per Wikipedia: “U.S. Marines presented with the Ranger Tab are not authorized to wear it on their uniforms.”
The guy is a LIAR, but Wikipedia included 5 presstitute sources for that tidbit about Phillips being a Recon Ranger. No one who has been in the military would describe themselves that way. A Marine might say of himself “Lance Corporal” or “Gunnery Sergeant” or some other widely understood rank and job. “Recon Ranger” sounds elite and dangerous, and like something a Liberal would just make up, as they do.
Let’s see the DD214.
Yes. They called us Vietnam Era Vets. During part of the war I was on Nuke Subs so not in country fighting. I don’t claim to be a Vietnam Vet, and I would never dishonor those that served in Nam by trying to glom on to their honor by using similar words. I have no sympathy for those that would. I am just an honorably discharged vet.
Thank you!
Thank you! Wikipedia itself cannot support the LIE and has no pages for “US Marine Corp Vietnam Recon Ranger”. Too bad journalism is yellow and dead.
Leftards are outraged and offended by anyone who doesnt think (if you call it that) the way they do with their diseased agenda.
Attention whores usually wind up getting attention they never counted on.
Red man speak with forked tongue ???
Exactly. Phillips is a coward. He attacked a minor CHILD.
For what?
Your posts! And your father’s service.
Well, the Marines did have Rangers in WWII. They were special forces, basically SEALS of the day. At the end of the war, they were decommissioned. When MARSOC was formed in 2005, guys were claiming the old Ranger title, but it was not until around 2014 that Rangers name in the Marines was official again. You can search Marine Ranger and read about them. But yea, Recon Ranger? Maybe he meant he was a Power Ranger!
Well, the Marines did have Rangers in WWII.
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Not Rangers. Raiders.
The USMC never had Rangers. That’s US Army.
Wasn’t there someone in the news recently who claimed to be a Vietnam Vet - and then had to backtrack to ‘Vietnam Era’?
Yes, my bad. I am working and trying to socialize at the same time! Raiders, not Rangers.
I think you mean A-7 Corsair, not F-7. PS I am a Vietnam era veteran too being in ROTC and commissioned in May 1974.
And what real vet calls themselves a “Vietnam era vet”??
One who never went to Vietnam
Thank you for your service and for your very classy and respectful reply to that post.
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