Vietnam Veterans Honored at White House Nearly 40 Years Later [by Ayers' and Dohrn's pal Obama]

FoxNews.com ^ | October 20, 2009 | Joshua Rhett Miller

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Oct. 20: President Obama shakes hands
with Capt. John Poindexter in the Rose
Garden of the White House in Washington.

For Army Capt. John Poindexter, being awarded the Presidential Unit Citation for heroism Tuesday marked an "opportunity to close a chapter" in his life.

"The general feeling is a pretty intense level of excitement," Poindexter told Foxnews.com just before he and 85 other Vietnam veterans were honored at a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden.

"It will mean to me that I've filled an important duty to the men who I literally owe my life to, men who supported me in a desperate battle 40 years ago in the jungles along the Cambodian border."

Poindexter, 65, was one of 86 veterans of Troop A, 1st Squadron of the 11th Armored Calvary Regiment who were honored for defining the meaning of "bravery and heroism," President Obama said.

"As these men will you tell you themselves, this isn't the story of a battle that changed the course of a war," Obama said. "It never had a name, like Tet or Hue or Khe Sanh. It never made the papers back home. But like countless battles, known and unknown, it is a proud chapter in the story of the American soldier."

The group volunteered to rescue an American infantry company surrounded by enemy forces on the Cambodian border on March 26, 1970. ..."

[Gator113]

Honor can not come from Obama nor this White House.

Obama needed a positive photo opp, that’s all this was..... just political theater. ~spit~

[Ditto]

1st Air Calvary Division

[BykrBayb]

Calvary: noun The hill outside Jerusalem on which Jesus was crucified.

Cavalry: noun ( pl. -ries) [usu. treated as pl. ] historical
soldiers who fought on horseback.
• historical a branch of an army made up of such soldiers.
• modern soldiers who fight in armored vehicles.

[Uri’el-2012]

0bama is having photo ops at the white house,
while his ROEs are putting our troops in harm's way.

The man is not to trusted !

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[elcid1970]

I had a coworker who was a brown river Navy vet. It frosted him no end that J. F’in Kerry degraded the Purple Heart and DEROSd back to the world after four months in VN.

But being a liberal, he voted for him anyway.

A/229th Assault Helo Bn
Task Force Garry Owen
1971-72

[donna]

I’m sorry but the horror of them accepting anything from this Administration is too much to think about.