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To: Javelina
Ollie did what was necessary to ensure our security. He was incredibly creative in what he did, and then beat the dims at their own game. He NEVER turned his back on President Reagan, and NEVER sold out for money like some whores in the Senate do today! He put his life and career on the line for freedom. Yes, IMHO you and the USNA were wrong!

LLS
40 posted on 02/24/2006 8:58:22 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (Preserve America... kill terrorists... destroy dims!)
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To: LibLieSlayer; Javelina
Yes, IMHO you and the USNA were wrong!

Well, since I was the one who wrote the USNA thing about Ollie, I'll explain:

There's a semester-long class at USNA called Leadership and Law in which you examine a whole bunch of case profiles about what to do and what not to do in morally sketchy situations. The goal here, of course, is to help young officers figure out how to "do the right thing" throughout their careers. Ollie was originally the class of '67, but he got messed up in a car accident. In essence, they held him back a year and he graduated with the class of '68. The injuries he sustained made him NPQ for the Corps. In order to get into the Marines, he got ahold of his medical record and ripped out any and all reference to his injuries, thereby enabling him to qualify for the Corps.

Here's the moral pickle: you can respect Ollie for doing what he did in order to serve in the Corps (and I do---I wish I had the balls to do something like that myself, I could've flown), but was it okay to tamper with his medical records like that?

For what it's worth. But I guess there was a reason why USNA didn't hang Ollie's picture among the "Distinguished Graduates" portaits off the Rotunda.

44 posted on 02/24/2006 9:15:44 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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