Doesn’t REALLY add up’: Tweep’s thread on Nathan Phillips’ claims of Vietnam service will(T)

twitchy.com ^ | 1/21/2019 | sam j

[rktman]

IF he is indeed 64, it would be questionable. Comments.

[BipolarBob]

He is a known liar so the burden is on him to prove it which I doubt he will.

[phormer phrog phlyer]

You are correct, he would have been at the end.

[rktman]

Anybody deployed past ‘73 on here?

[an amused spectator]

Unless he had a birthday in the last three weeks, he's 63.

Born in 1955.

[SkyDancer]

He would have been 20 when the war ended in 1975 so perhaps when he was drafted at 18 he possibly could have been there in 1973; but the war was slowly winding down then and perhaps the draft wasn’t taking in anymore. It can go either way. Somebody in the VA could affirm.

[an amused spectator]

He was born in 1955.

[luvbach1]

If 64, why does he look 94?

[maggief]

Found this at Newsbank:

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Pow wow gives life to past and present
July 2, 2007 | Blade, The (Toledo, OH)

Mr. Phillips served in the Marine Corps in Vietnam from 1972-76

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Also mentioned here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgYbKQRvn6I

350.org Washington DC November 19, 2012
Mr. Nathan Phillips is affiliated with the Omaha Nation in Nebraska.Mr. Phillips served in the Marine Corps in Vietnam from 1972-76. He arrived to join the White House March from Arlington Cemetery. He had just completed a Peace Pipe ceremony and drumming to honor fallen soldiers. He visited DC from Michigan, where he and his wife are currently residing while she undergoes bone marrow treatment. There, Mr Phillips drumming other activities include participation in the grass dance. He explained that many nations believe the Grass Dance it to be the oldest form of dance in this hemisphere, used to prepare a piece of ground for other activities many years ago. Mr. Phillips presence and blessing — are emblematic of the spirit to hold sacred our regard of the Earth.

“You have to be of sober mind and sober body because you have such a responsibility,” he stressed.

[OKSooner]

My friend was born in 55 and he tells me he was at no risk of being drafted in 1973.

[GrootheWanderer]

In a Vanity Fair article last year, he said he turned 64 in February of that year. If my math is right, he was born in 1954.

[laplata]

If he’s 64, he would have ben around 16 or 17 when the Marines pulled out.

About 3 minutes is all it would take to see if he was a Viet Nam vet. And if he was a combat vet, about 2 minutes.

[dfwgator]

[laplata]

The USMC was no longer in VN in 1973.

[Vaquero]

To much peyote. To much booze he rented out his wife for.

[SkyDancer]

Yes, I knew that when I was doing the math that’s how I came up with the two ages of 18 and 20.

[rktman]

Served in the corps 72-76 maybe but not in country 72-76.

[SkyDancer]

Well it seems then that’s his problem to explain.

[MichaelCorleone]

Let’s as John Kerry - he seems keen on telling Vietnam War stories. Maybe he knows...

[laplata]

That’s right. a few minute chat with him would tell if he was in Nam.