Navy agrees admiral was entitled to wear combat decorations

AP | June 25, 1998 | AP

[honway]

My editorial is that this AP article never made it to the mainstream media.

[BenR2]

My editorial is that I will go to my grave believing that the evil Clintons had more to do with this suicide than any bruhaha over ribbons.

That is, IF it was a suicide at all -- and if it was a suicide, was it just possibly a Rommel-style suicide (either you kill yourself, or we will do it for you)?

[Hemingway's Ghost]

I don't believe for a second Boorda "killed himself" over these medals.

[mr.pink]

Me neither.

[PhiKapMom]

Never believed he committed suicide over the ribbons -- not then not now. Will always believe the clintons had something to do with his death!

[OldFriend]

And who was one of his chief accusers......none other than HACKWORTH......

[Semper911]

believing that the evil Clintons had more to do with this suicide

I will always remember the video of Clinton being passed a note giving him the news of the "suicide." I found it very odd that his staff felt it was so urgent that they had to write it on a slip of paper for Clinton, so he could learn the news during a public event (with the cameras rolling.) It would have made more sense to wait and tell him privately.

His reaction, played over and over on the networks, reminded me of Clinton's phoney-assed grief at Ron Brown's funeral. It gave me the creeps then, and it still does.

[Ben Bolt]

Here we go again ... Bump !

[marron]

He was shot in the chest. Add his name to the Clinton death list.

[Chemnitz]

ditto

[TruthNtegrity]

I know someone who worked with ADM Boorda, who spoke with him the Morning of the suicide, and who was himself castigated and criticized by the same "old guard" that made Boorda's life a living hell.

I never believed that his suicide was over the medals but over the continuing Clinton pressure.

And now we've had the pleasure of seeing Hackworth exhibit his craziness, publicly on TV, about the Iraq War, and this same idiot was part of the accusers of Boorda? Oh joy.

[jriemer]

He's dead Jim.

[ChuckSnow5]

I met Admiral Boorda twice when I was an active duty Marine. He alsways made you feel like you knew each other like best friends. He was charismatic and a born leader.

I never beleived for a second that it was over ribbons. Something was going on behind the scenes. I don't think the truth will ever be sifted out of the trail of death and destruction the clintonistas left in their wake.

[steve-b]

I can believe that someone might commit suicide over the shame of being branded a fraud in a way so central to his chosen way of life. That leaves open the question of whether the bogus accusation itself originated in willful malice.

[aristeides]

Wasn't there something about a letter Boorda wrote to the sailors that was never released? I wonder what it said.

[Just mythoughts]

Exactly, I demand that he give a public apology.

Hackworth is well named.

[honway]

Link

NewsHour Online: Admiral Boorda dies of gunshot wounds to the ...

[Hemingway's Ghost]

That leaves open the question of whether the bogus accusation itself originated in willful malice.

Guaranteed it did. But I think the accusation was an events-based version of Stalin's "useful idiots" model.

[honway]

http://www.cnn.com/US/9705/16/hackworth/

Hackworth says error doesn't compare to Boorda suicide case

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- David Hackworth, the retired army colonel turned journalist who questioned medals worn by the Navy's top admiral -- who later killed himself -- acknowledges he wrongly claimed credit for two of his own military honors.

The awards, which had been listed on Hackworth's personal Internet page, have now been removed.

[LukeSW]

One interesting note about Boorda. The morning after his death, the WSJ, on page 1, described the death as an "ASSASSINATION!" (my emphasis and exclamation point added).

Freudian slip, or intentional trial balloon, we may never know. But that is exactly how the Wall Street Journal characterized it.