I believe the one who is the slanderer is the one you are defending. Soldiers do not speak publicly about the President and they respect authority. She is giving an opinion on a subject she is neither qualified or paid to speak on. I have many friends who are officers way above her pay grade and they think she is way out of line. I also have a son in the military - so don't tell me it does not affect morale. You do not know what you are talking about!
Did you ever serve in the military? If so, please, what branch?
What on earth are you talking about? She hasn't said word one about the president. You can respect authority all you like, but that does not allow you to look the other way when things you know aren't true are said about you.
If some military official or even just some media report says "she fought until out of ammo" and she knows for a fact it is flat not true, then either she says so or she lies about her own valor. Nothing can require that of her - it is her honor.
It is far more important not to lay claim to undeserved honors - which wrongs fellow soldiers who do deserve theirs - than to correct such a mistake by a superior, in which there is no dishonor at all. The mistake is not hers.
If it was only a media misreport, or an off the record preliminary indication that turned out to be false, then those involved just say "so we were wrong about that, sorry, we got bad info at the time", and that is the end of that.
And nobody on earth is more qualified to say whether or not she fought before being captured that she is. It is absurd, the imaginary charges people here are pulling out of the air. All that happened is her story was hyped beyond what the truth can bear and she has corrected that. Good for her. And shame on anybody who faults her for it, as though she should have lied about it instead.