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.
. . . not to be compared with treating an officer as a WH waiter, but serious.
Boorda's Navy Record Remains Same
Admiral Committed Suicide After Questions Arose About His Combat Decorations
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (July 3) - The official record of Adm. Jeremy ''Mike'' Boorda, who committed suicide amid questions about his combat decorations, will continue to show he did not earn them, the Navy has decided.
A board of three civilians recommended last month that the record remain unaltered, Navy spokesman Capt. Mark Van Dyke said Friday. The ruling was upheld by Carolyn Becraft, who has the final say as assistant secretary of the Navy for manpower and reserve affairs.
Boorda, who joined the Navy at 16 and became the only enlisted man to rise to chief of naval operations, took his life in 1996 after 40 years of service. He was about to be asked by Newsweek reporters about why he wore Combat Vs - tiny bronze letters standing for ''valor.''
The decorations were attached to a Navy Achievement Medal awarded in 1968 and a Navy Commendation Medal awarded in 1973.
In a suicide note ''to my sailors,'' Boorda said he felt disgraced.
Last year, then-Navy Secretary John Dalton placed a memo in Boorda's file - backed by another memo from Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., the Vietnam War-era chief of naval operations - that declared him eligible to have worn the decorations.
Dalton said only the Navy review board could officially change the record to say Boorda had the right to wear them.
The Boorda family petitioned the Board for Corrections of the Naval Records last September to change the record and show he was entitled to wear the decorations.
''The final decision was there was no error or injustice in Adm. Boorda's record and the panel was unanimous in their recommendation,'' Van Dyke said.
He provided the information to The Associated Press after an inquiry prompted by the state of Illinois' decision to award a $20,000 grant for a memorial in Boorda's hometown, Momence, about 50 miles south of Chicago.
Boorda removed the decorations from his ribbons in 1995, on the advice of the Navy's Office of Awards and Special Projects.
Dalton's memo says the citations justifying the awards ''plainly state they were awarded for service including combat operations.'' Zumwalt's memo said it was ''appropriate, justified and proper'' for Boorda to have the decorations.
Wearing an unauthorized decoration is a severe breach of military protocol.
The question you should be asking is why that decision never made it to the mainstream media.
June 25, 1998: The Supreme Court rules 6-3 that attorney-client privilege extends beyond the grave, exempting Vince Foster's conversations with his lawyers from being called as evidence in Ken Starr's presidential investigations.
June 25, 1998: White House communications aide Sidney Blumenthal testifies before Ken Starr's grand jury for the third time. Blumenthal complains that Starr's inquiry focused on what the White House was saying about his prosecution rather than Blumenthal's conversations with the president.
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