Posted on 11/11/2023 4:51:43 PM PST by Pol-92064
Seventy years after the Korean War ended, veteran Earl Meyer is still waiting for his Purple Heart.
The 96-year-old Minnesotan can still feel the shrapnel that remains lodged in his leg that he says happened when his platoon came under heavy fire in June 1951. Doctors have said it’s too close to his sciatic nerve to remove.
In recent years, at the urging of his daughters who he only opened up to about his war experiences as he got older, Meyer decided to apply for a Purple Heart, but he has repeatedly been denied as decades have faded positive proof.
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Statute of Limitations
Plus No standing?
I don’t care how cool the tour is ...
If you’re a candidate for public office ...
Do not, EVER, wear job related specialized clothing of any sort. Even a hard-hat in a factory tour is dicey.
Americans are damned stupid and will make fun of you for it. It’s completely irrational, but half the population is below average.
If he really wants a purple heart, he should start transitioning at 96.
He’ll be a shoe in.
Oh, FFS.
But, John F-ing Kerry has several of them???????????????
GIVE AN ACTUAL HERO HIS DESERVED PURPLE HEART.
Like this???
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/02/21/17/49721CD100000578-0-image-a-83_1519233876074.jpg
You make good points.
Same DOD that gave Beau Biden (and many others) The Legion of Merit and Bronze Star for lawyering in a combat zone. This man saw actual combat and was wounded and the Army says no to him.
“half the population is below average.”
Actually, MORE than half of the population is below the average.
Half of the population is below the median.
The median is the middle value in a set of data when the values are arranged in order from smallest to largest. If there is an even number of values, the median is the average of the two middle values.
The average is the sum of all the values in a data set divided by the total number of values in the set, and is sensitive to extreme values and can be skewed by them.
More than half the population doesn’t know what a mean, a median, and a mode are ...
So I use terminology that most are capable of understanding.
What took Kerry down was not what he wore but how he reacted.
If he had laughed and said, "yep I look silly don't I, glad that is not what I have to wear all the time. But there are people who do and they are very important to keeping our society running and they are not given enough credit. And they need ..... blah blah blah blah... And when I am president I intend to see they get .... blah blah blah blah."
But he had such a thin skin that he got angry and pouted and honestly acted like a small child.
My grandfather had a piece of shrapnel in his shoulder from Pearl Harbor that joined him in thengrave. He never got a purple heart. For that you need to get a hangnail like John Kerry.
My father faced the same circumstance
when it came to his VA benefits. The
Army’s hall of records in Minnesota
caught fire and burned quite a few
Korean veterans service records.
I just think of our WW2 and korean vets....very few came back and got the pstd award....as if what they saw or did was inconsequential....
but now, everybody and their brother gets it....
same as all these medals...
Interesting. I tried to trace my grandfather’s service history from WW 1. He was an officer in the US Army in France. I spoke with a historian at Ft. Hood in Killeen and she told me that all the Army records had been kept in a warehouse in St. Louis and that warehouse burned down sometime in the 1950’s. All those records were lost.
It’ a medical condition.
You’re free to disagree ... but then I see people on THIS forum obsessing over cowboy boots, and so I stand by my assessment.
Very interesting. Too far out there
to be a coincidence?
My Dads sister had to petition the
govenor. This was in 1990, when my
dad passed away. The petition was to
have him laid to rest in the veterans
section of the cemetery. It was granted.
The fire actually happened in July of 1973.
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