Posted on 08/06/2024 7:22:14 AM PDT by hardspunned
Tim Walz has embellished and selectively omitted facts and circumstances of his military career for years.
We, retired Command Sergeants Major of the Minnesota National Guard, feel it is our duty and responsibility to bring forth the truth as we know it concerning his service record. So, we have put together a timeline of his service post 9/11. To the best of our knowledge, this information is completely true, having been verified by all those who served in positions with first hand knowledge of the facts and circumstances of his service and departure from the Minnesota National Guard. Many of the dates and time frames are from his official discharge document and the reduction order reducing him to Master Sergeant.
(Excerpt) Read more at wctrib.com ...
I had no agenda on this issue then and I have no agenda on this issue now.
I heard him speak and evaluated that speaking performance in real time without any input from anyone.
Nothing more and nothing less.
Absolute best monetary political contribution I ever made was to the SBVfT.
Dennis Miller said it best about Stockdale:
Language Warning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-RBYRpydXk
You are entitled to your opinion, for what it is worth.
He is a gutless weasel who ran for the tall grass when his unit was called to active duty and he has lied about it ever since.
He may have gotten away with that in liberal Minnesota, but that will not fly in most of the rest of the country.
For about a year, I drove around with this on my window up here in Massachusetts after buying this sticker from them:
To the Massachusetts moon bats credit (if indeed credit can be given in any way to them) my car never got vandalized, but I did have one incident that makes me laugh every time I think about it. One morning as I was driving into work, a car passed me on my right. As I looked over I saw a hand pressed up against the driver side window with the middle finger extended. To my astonishment, it “looked like a little old lady with a gray bun on her head! (In retrospect, I'm not sure she was actually a little old lady, but one of those 50+ year old aging moon bats, but when they look like that, you can never really tell…) I'll be honest, I very nearly did run off the road!
I made a mistake in my other post-it wasn't before the election of 2024, it was the night before The Gathering of Eagles in 2007, and I had the honor, privilege and pleasure to meet a number of The Swift Boat Veterans at the counter-Code Pink demonstration in front of Walter Reed hospital. I got a chance to talk to them face to face for several hours, shake their hands and extend a genuine and heartfelt “thank you” to them. It was special, being able to stand up there by the side of the road, holding an American flag by their side, and being able to hear their point of view on things. One of them gave me a pin in the shape of a Swift boat...and that meant something to me.
You know, I always felt that these men could have just kept their mouths shut. They could've just stayed at home and swore at the TV like many of us did. But instead, they got off their rear ends and went back to work in the service of their country. Many of them took heat for this, and there was that one fellow who lost his job because of it.
I say, God Bless The Swift Boat Veterans!
Walz is a Chicken Hawk ... seems to be well documented
THE BRUNSON CASE EXPLAINED HERE: JUSTICE MAY YET PREVAIL!
https://amac.us/newsline/society/supreme-court-dockets-brunson-v-adams-case-that-challenges-the-failure-of-congress-to-investigate-disputed-electoral-college-votes/
THIS 2 MINUTE VIDEO EXPLAINS WHY THE LEFTIST MAINSTREET MEDIA WHORES ARE LYING TO CONSTITUTION LOVING CITIZENS:
https://x.com/andred928/status/1811717655474188679
IF THIS IS LEGIT, THE COURT & HONEST & CONSTITUTION LOYAL MILITARY ELEMENTS ARE POISED TO ACT AT THE APPROPRIATE TIME.
Thank you for that link...much appreciated.
He was assigned as an OIC in charge of about 6 students, including Stockdale, to provide special instruction. In 1993, when my dad was dying from prostate cancer, my sister wrote to Admiral Stockdale, who was working at the Hoover Institute at Standford, to ask if he remembered our dad, and if so, would he write a letter to him (as a way of lifting his spirits).
The letter he wrote to my dad was wonderful, crediting my dad's instruction and saying he likely owed his wings to him, providing updates on many of those they had both known back then.
The last line of the letter chokes me up everytime: "And I am still cutting it up here at Stanford, remembering old times and thanking my lucky stars for many breaks--including knowing you".
Ugh. I have always tried to separate Democrats from their military service. I have known many I admired. My dad even ran for office as a Democrat, though he was no Democrat, and I am pretty sure he never voted for a Democrat for President...ever. (He had to run as a Democrat, because this corrupt state had things stacked so heavily in their favor he would have been wasting his time running as a Republican, and he knew it.
But I look at Democrats the way they might have been back post WWII, when you had people like JFK and even George McGovern who served.
But today? Every single issue-EVERYTHING-the Democrats of today support is counter to the principles of our founding and our Constitution.
This was a paid hit piece against waltz, a 24 year veteran who was honorably discharged after service. Maybe there’s more non-veterans on FR nowadays than I will have thought, but surely there are better areas we can criticize him than his service, or type of work he did or when he retired.
I cannot be impartial in judging Stockdale's performance, and I admit to that fully, because when I was a kid growing up on a Navy base overseas in the Sixties, I knew who many of these men were who languished in those horrible POW camps. I wore a metal bracelet with Stockdale's name on it (and when that one corroded and went to pieces, I got one with Denton's name on it.
When I watched Stockdale on television, I was not seeing a doddering old man. I just wasn't.
I was seeing a man, being stripped naked, beaten with staves, pulled off the ground with his arms tied behind his back, yet refusing to divulge the information they wanted. When he could hold out no longer, he gave them fake or meaningless information, and as a leader, encouraged others to hold out as long as they were personally capable of doing so, and then giving them meaningless information of their own.
That is what I saw, not a doddering old man. As Dennis Miller said in that link provided by Freeper dfwgator, he committed the unpardonable sin in American politics of looking bad on television. (Thank you, dfwgator)
I just saw this picture, and it made me choke up. He is fifty years old in this picture, the day he came back to the USA. Look at that man.
Fifty years old. And he looks like he is Eighty. But that is still essentially him inside, you can see it in his eyes. What a man.
By the way-I apologize for being snippy with you. You may have the ability to be impartial in your judgement of Admiral Stockdale’s performance on that day, but I have never been able to be impartial towards him, and that is my issue, not yours.
Benedict Arnold was a great American hero before he betrayed his country. All of his service, root and branch was wholly and justifiably discredited.
Walz is a committed socialist (meaning Communist) and I consider him and those like him to be domestic enemies of this country. It isn’t that his actions and opinions are contrary to mine, they are directly opposed to the principles of the US Constitution, and the principles this country was founded upon. The fact that he holds public office does not insulate him from that, as a matter of fact, it makes it far worse.
He has abdicated any favorable consideration for his military service, in my opinion, in exactly the same way the POS cadet did by supporting Communism.
Walz did basic @ Ft Benning in 1981 to become an 11B, sometime around ‘96 transferred to MN and became a 13 series.
I knew nothing about the gentleman when I saw him on TV.
Nothing.
There were millions of Americans watching who were also introduced to him for the first time that night.
Life can be cruel and unfair sometimes.
We all know outstanding people in our communities who are poor public speakers.
There is nothing wrong with that—until they try to run for public office. Then it is big trouble.
Walz was chosen purely for his military service to offset Vance’s service.
I understand.
I had an experience recently with a veteran who had been badly injured in combat many decades ago, and he had invited me to go to the range with him.
As we walked out to place our targets and walk back, it took us longer because he simply isn’t the kind of guy who was going to let some guy like ME take his target out for him, so...out we went.
It took us longer to get back to the firing line, and we were the last ones back. There was no doubt some grumbling from all the young bucks at these two guys slowly coming back, because they certainly had things to do and places to go.
Myself, I counted every step as a privilege and an honor, knowing what I do of him, and thinking how different those young men might have felt if they knew even a little bit about this man. I am certain they would have not felt as some of them must have.
But they didn’t know anything about my friend, and that is a fact of life. And as you said, so it was for Admiral Stockdale in that debate, I expect.
When John Kerry was staying overnight in Cocoa Beach, we were out there with signs and flags the night before. Several local Freepers were in attendance. There was a wheelchair-bound Swifty there with us. When the USSS arrived, they came right over to him. Standard practice, I am sure [but they could also be surreptitiously thanking him for his service, prior and currrent.]
We were back out in the morning and another Swifty was there. We easily had over 100 people out there for hours awaiting Kerry's departure [Brevard County is reliably red]. The local GoP guy was dressed up as flipper in honor of Kerry's infamous "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it" quote.
Shortly before Kerry's bus drove out onto Highway A1A, 3 or 4 SEUI purple shirts showed up and, of course, the news cameras focused on them, not the 100+ of us. The standing Swift Boat Veteran was so stoked afterward, because he claimed Kerry flipped him off. I'd call that a success.
God Bless the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and also the retired Command Sergeants Major of the Minnesota NG. Duty, Honor, Country is strong in them.
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