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Greg Adams
US Army RVN 69/70
"Next evening, there it was. I reached up there and got him. And I wished a thousand times I could have put him back - he was just as mean as I was!"
I like his sense of humor. This is a gentleman I would like to meet.
My thanks to Clarence Lee, one of America's finest.
May God Bless him and his family.
Thank you for your service to our country sounds so inadequate. I am thanking God for you and those like you, WO Lee.
Thanks for posting, WestTexasWend.
He is what makes America and I am proud to be a part of it. What a hero.
Veterans Day must read.
This would make a magnificent movie.
This can't be true......I read that torture is when you have prisoners stack up nekkid in a human pyramid and make them wear underwear on their heads and take pictures of them and then when you're done, you put them in a beach resort where they get to work out and have three squares a day.
By the way.... Great story about a true hereo.
Amazing person. I'm in awe of anyone who can endure what he has endured.
Something tells me this man will never be buying a product that was "Made in Viet Nam"...
Great story, thanks for posting. I just sent it to my little brother, a Marine, father of six, men's Bible study member and trucker for a midwest power company. He was a hopeless screwup headed the wrong way, until he joined the Marines. We ask God to bless them but recognize that he already has, and continues to do so - for which we give thanks.
Murtha would do well if he were just 1% of this man.
I think I'll run this story by a few POWs to see what they say...
I salute you Sir. You are a true hero. And only of people like you Sir, that made America great.
What an amazing story. All those weenies who complained about the horrifying tactic of putting panties on the head of terrorists at Abu Ghraib need to listen to this man! In fact, I think he, and all the men who were TRULY tortured by the North Vietnamese, need to be called as material witnesses if Rummy is ever put on trial for ordering 'torture' at Abu Ghraib!!
One more thing, this is Medal Of Honor/Navy Cross stuff.
Bull.
There were four POW/MIAs named Lee. None was a Marine. None was a helicopter pilot. (Three were jet fighter/bomber crewmen, one was a Navy petty officer lost overboard). None returned alive.
Someone has already posted the POWNETWORK.ORG listing. Here is the official page from the DOD.
http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/pmsea/pmsea_html_l.htm
I am sorry for Mr Lee and for the people who were taken in by him, but whatever he has or has not done in his life, he was never a prisoner, missing, or out of US contact in Southeast Asia, or he would be on the PMSEA list. In thirty years, the list has never been corrected, except as remains are recovered, and as deserters return to face the music.
It gives me scant pleasure to bust a phony on Veterans' Day. But the Japanese used to say, "Dusty is heavier than a mountain."
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F