What Kerry actually did in Vietnam did not merit the medals he recommended himself for.
Webb was the real thing.
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The Navy Cross is presented to James H. Webb, Jr., First Lieutenant, U.S. Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism while serving as a Platoon Commander with Company D, First Battalion, Fifth Marines, First Marine Division (Reinforced), Fleet Marine Force, in connection with combat operations against the enemy in the Republic of Vietnam. On 10 July 1969, while participating in a company-sized search and destroy operation deep in hostile territory, First Lieutenant Webb's platoon discovered a well-camouflaged bunker complex which appeared to be unoccupied. Deploying his men into defensive positions, First Lieutenant Webb was advancing to the first bunker when three enemy soldiers armed with hand grenades jumped out. Reacting instantly, he grabbed the closest man and, brandishing his .45 caliber pistol at the others, apprehended all three of the soldiers. Accompanied by one of his men, he then approached the second bunker and called for the enemy to surrender. When the hostile soldiers failed to answer him and threw a grenade which detonated dangerously close to him, First Lieutenant Webb detonated a claymore mine in the bunker aperture, accounting for two enemy casualties and disclosing the entrance to a tunnel. Despite the smoke and debris from the explosion and the possibility of enemy soldiers hiding in the tunnel, he then conducted a thorough search which yielded several items of equipment and numerous documents containing valuable intelligence data. Continuing the assault, he approached a third bunker and was preparing to fire into it when the enemy threw another grenade. Observing the grenade land dangerously close to his companion, First Lieutenant Webb simultaneously fired his weapon at the enemy, pushed the Marine away from the grenade, and shielded him from the explosion with his own body. Although sustaining painful fragmentation wounds from the explosion, he managed to throw a grenade into the aperture and completely destroy the remaining bunker. By his courage, aggressive leadership, and selfless devotion to duty, First Lieutenant Webb upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and of the United States Naval Service."
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Webb the Pervert is a democrat trying to unseat a republican.
I judge a man by his character and not by what political party he claims.
My impression of James Webb was formed in the mid 1980's while I was an active duty naval officer and he was SECNAV speaking about honor and duty instead of careerism.
>I judge a man by his character and not by what political party he claims.<
The man carried himself well in the Armed Forces, as have countless others. That said, there are other parts of his character that Virginians will not tolerate in one of their Senators, especially when they have a popular, conservative incumbant with a proven record.
Maybe you ought to read his novels. They are chocked full of filth.
Disgusting scenes that have nothing to do with normal relationships or love or anything other than the lowest of the low depictions. A woman sits on a toilet seat in a fully exposed manner while she eats chocolates and reads the Rosary. A man watches her. A man observes his own mother absolutely fully exposed. She is totally denegrated in the specific way it happens. A fifteen year old girl entices a thirteen year old boy to have sex with her. There is lead-in talk about whether he is "big" enough or not and she assures him he is.
I could go on but will not. There is scene after scene after scene which are dirty and lurid in every conceivable way.
Character? What character?
(I have never read the novels as such but have seen excerpts posted on FR and am working from memory of a small portion of what I saw.)
I take the one scene you excused in the context of the rest of his inexcusable filth. This man wants to be VA Senator, defeating its current Senator and former Governor.
I don't think so.
Duke Cunningham was an almost superhuman combat pilot and hero. He was also a crook of the lowest order.
James Webb was a combat hero. He is also a deranged sexual pervert.
Benedict Arnold was the real thing, too. FACT: one can be inhumanly brave and unimaginably courageous in combat and still be a POS. How many SS Nazis were inhumanly brave in combat? FACT: he might have been the greatest thing since bullets at one time, but FACT: he is now in the party of Alger Hiss, Fidel Castro, the Viet Cong, Soviet Russia, North Korea, Michael Moore, the Muslim Jihadists, Roe v. Wade, Gun Control, etc. Therefore, I hope and pray that the sickening pervert freak POS suffers great agony.