Isn’t it public record as to which servicemen have received Purple Hearts?
Five is a lot — surely there is some mention of it somewhere.
Canada Ping!
Fake
My CIC was Eisenhower, and things must’ve changed since I put my Ike jacket away. I would not wear it today because I would simply not fit in it, but that’s not the point.
As I remember, officers started wearing chicken droppings on their cap at the rank of bird colonel.
Is this O-4 entitled to have it on his cap? I always thought it looked good.
What’s really sad here is that there are so many stories and pictures of phonies out there that when I see an old timer sporting a very colorful chest, my first instinct isn’t immediately one of admiration and respect, it’s one of suspicion and a desire not to be taken in by a fraud.
AFAIK, this man is the real deal. I retired as a MSgt out of the USMCR, and the uniform and the decorations look right. The supporting documents look right, and there are references to this man online as having written about his experiences during Vietnam.
If he’s out there in front of that memorial in uniform as a retired Marine, I’d say that is his lawful right to wear that uniform while engaged in what amounts to a military event in an allied nation. I also think he’d love to use that sword on any Islamic lunatic who attacked him.
It’s too bad that in this day and age of Marine Corps Commandants padding resumes (General Amos), we all feel we have to confirm that an old Marine doing something like this is what he claims to be.
Hell, I’m too pudgy to fit in my blues a decade after I got out, and if I ever get slim enough to wear them again I’d feel like I’d need to have my SRB handy to justify the modest awards I rate...and even if I could wear the uniform and provide the documentation, I’m pretty damn sure that I’d catch Hell for being “just a reservist” anyway, like that Canadian soldier the Jihadi killed at the memorial.
I think what the Major is doing is great. If it turns out he’s not what he says, it’ll be a shame, but unless that happens I’m not going to let the phonies cast a shadow on it.
Wonder if that band-aid has any correlation to his sword height?
I suspect he’s for real or the Knuck Gov’t wouldn’t let him parade around there.
Been a while since I wore the Uniform, there were 2 Canadians in my Platoon in Boot Camp.
I think there might be an organization in Canada called the “49th Marines” Those Marines who came from above the 49th parallel and served.