Navy agrees admiral was entitled to wear combat decorations

AP | June 25, 1998 | AP

[honway]

It has been reported that medical personnel that examined
Admiral Boorda's body determined there were two gunshot wounds to the chest.

[Just mythoughts]

Go figure, so has Hackworth been feeding us bull for years, so who is he really working for.

[isthisnickcool]

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.

I met a fellow a few years ago that wrote a booked called "Stolen Valor". It was about people that lied about being in the military, what they did in the military, decorations, etc. He exposed numerous people that were fakes.

People that take credit for things they never did in the military are the lowest forms of life.

[Junior]

That SOB, Hackworth, can kiss my @$$. He's the one that started the ball rolling that led to Adm. Boorda's death.

[Cicero]

I think there's much more to this than a couple of ribbons. Since the regulations were complicated, Boorda simply could have said he was mistaken and removed the Vs. There's no dishonor in an honest mistake.

[PhilDragoo]

1996.

Ron Brown had that "accident".

TWA Flight 800 had that "center fuel tank explosion".

Admiral Boorda committed "suicide".

traitorrapist42 and Hitlery das Butch von Buchenvald were re-elected.

I have written Hackworth about Boorda's death and the role Hackworth's big mouth played in it, but this big hero did not reply.

Zumwalt's stipulation was widely known yet suppressed.

Recall that then-Secretary of the Navy John Dalton ran a Texas savings and loan (Sequin Savings Association) that failed at a cost to the taxpayers of $100 million.

Boorda was something special and vipers like Hackworth and Dalton deserve immediate seating in Dante's club for their role in his death.

[honway]

http://www.angelfire.com/mn/nn/Wargames.html

Link

Well, see, what apparently inspired this movie was that in November of ’79 and twice in June of ’80, maybe this is the same thing you’re talking about, they had computer malfunctions at NORAD, and it did signal that the U.S. was under attack by Soviet missiles, and American forces were put on alert. They figured it out within about 60 seconds or so, but that’s, of course that’s, when you were in Australia resting up, so you could come back here and kick hiney, right? You’ve been quite a critic of the military.

Hackworth: I was, at that point in time, I was involved in, and eventually leading, the anti-nuclear movement in Australia, for this very reason. The more I got into it, the first thing that bothered me was, Ronald Reagan and “evil empire” and all of that, frothing at the mouth at how we could use nuclear weapons, and yes we could lose 40,000,000 people, but it would be like losing a leg, no big thing. Or like stepping on an anthill, was another one of his expressions, and I thought, “Wow, how did this guy from a B-grade movie become the man with his finger on the button!” And I decided, at that time, to sound off and try to wake up Australia, and maybe more of the world.

Wow, he said we could lose 40 million, no problem?

Hackworth: Wouldn’t be a big thing.

OK, well…

Hackworth: He wouldn’t remember that right now.

No he wouldn’t. Let’s see if we can get to Defcom 3. Roll it.

[fading] Did you eat Vegamite, when you lived in Australia?

Hackworth: I did, I love Vegamite!

Oh my God, I think that stuff is vile. It’s like spreading stale, evaporated beer on a piece of toast.

Hackworth: You only had it once. Now you gotta try it twice. .

[navygal]

I agree

[honway]

http://www.hackworth.com/biography.html

Link

With all his many awards, Hack still considers the Combat Infantryman Badge and the United Nations Medal for Peace -- which he was presented for his anti-nuclear work in Australia -- his "highest awards

[honway]

With all his many awards, Hack still considers the Combat Infantryman Badge and the United Nations Medal for Peace -- which he was presented for his anti-nuclear work in Australia -- his "highest awards

He earned his UN medal for opposing President Reagan's defense policy while he was on foreign soil. Since Reagan's defense policy won the Cold War, it makes me wonder which side he is on.

[SW6906]

Wasn't Hillary! part of the chorus calling for Boorda to resign over this? Who was the Senator or Congfressman that Rush parodies asking Craig Livingston to "do like Admiral Boorda did and commit suicide" instead of bringing dishonor to the Clintons?

[honway]

http://www.cnn.com/US/9605/06/colby.found/index.html

Colby's body found in river
Wife identifies the ex-CIA chief

May 6, 1996
Web posted at: 10:10 a.m. EDT

ROCKY POINT, Maryland (CNN) -- The body of former CIA Director William Colby was recovered Monday morning about 20 yards from where his capsized, half-submerged canoe was found eight days ago, the Charles County Sheriff's Department said.

[honway]

On May 16, 1996, when his right to wear the decorations was about to be questioned, Boorda, 56, the first enlisted man to become the chief of naval operations in the service's 198-year history, went home, wrote a note "to my sailors," stepped into his garden and fatally shot himself in the chest.

[aristeides]

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

Interesting. Would Al Hunt, as news editor of the WSJ, have been the one to approve that item?

[honway]

Link

"A classified report prepared by two independent Pentagon experts has concluded that the destruction of the federal building in Oklahoma City last April was caused by five separate bombs. The two experts reached the same conclusion for the same technical reasons.

Sources close to the Pentagon study say Timothy McVeigh did play a role in the bombing but peripherally, as a "useful idiot." The multiple bombings have a Middle Eastern "signature," pointing to either Iraqi or Syrian involvement."

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The quote is from an article in the 3-20-1996 Strategic Investment Newsletter. At the time, William Colby, former CIA Director, was an editor for the publication. I believe his status as editor contributes to the credibility of the article.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Excerpts from Stolen Valor: How The Vietnam Generation Was Robbed Of its Heroes And its History by B.G. Burkett & Glenna Whitley:

Part I - Rambo and the Bogus War Heroes
Part II - Welcome Home, Babykiller
Part III - Will the Real Vietnam Vet Stand Up?
Part VI - The VVA - The Vietnam Victims of America

[aristeides]

That's three curious deaths inside a month and a half: Brown, Colby, Boorda.

[windcliff]

ping

[Hemingway's Ghost]

When did TWA 800 go down?

[honway]

May 8,1996

First OKCPD Officer in Murrah Building Murdered, Throat Cut, Body Dragged with Rope