We interrupt this blog to bring you a post from Election Day, U.S.A.
My mother (she's a Republican and a World War II army nurse) forwarded me the list below with the note: "Interesting."
*Jeff Danziger is a U.S. cartoonist who won the Bronze Star in Vietnam.
Democrats; anti-war
* Richard Gephardt: Air National Guard,
1965-71
* David Bonior: Staff Sgt., Air Force
1968-72
* Tom Daschle: 1st Lt., Air Force SAC
1969-72
* Al Gore: enlisted Aug. 1969; sent to Vietnam Jan. 1971 as an army journalist in 20th Engineer Brigade
* Bob Kerrey: Lt. j.g. Navy 1966-69; Medal of Honor, Vietnam.
* Daniel Inouye: Army 1943-47; Medal of Honor, WWII.
* John Kerry: Lt., Navy 1966-70; Silver Star, Bronze Star with Combat V, Purple Hearts
* Charles Rangel: Staff Sgt., Army 1948-52; Bronze Star, Korea.
* Max Cleland: Captain, Army 1965-68; Silver Star, Bronze Star, Vietnam. Paraplegic from war injuries.
* Robert Byrd: Did not serve. Worked as a welder assembling warships during WWII.
* Ted Kennedy: Army, 1951-53
* Tom Harkin: Lt., Navy, 1962-67; Naval
Reserve, 1968-74.
* Jack Reed: Army Ranger, 1971-1979;
Captain, Army Reserve 1979-91
* Fritz Hollings: Army officer in WWII;
Bronze Star and seven campaign ribbons.
* Leonard Boswell: Lt. Col., Army 1956-76; Vietnam DFCs, Bronze Stars, and Soldier's Medal.
* Pete Peterson: Air Force Captain, POW.
Purple Heart, Silver Star and Legion of Merit.
* Mike Thompson: Staff sergeant,
173rd Airborne, Purple Heart
* Bill McBride: Candidate for Fla.
Governor. Marine in Vietnam; Bronze Star with Combat V
* Gray Davis: Army Captain in Vietnam, Bronze Star.
* Pete Stark: Air Force 1955-57
* Chuck Robb: Vietnam
* [Howell Heflin: Silver Star]
* George McGovern: Silver Star; DFC
during WWII.
* Bill Clinton: Did not serve. Student
deferments. Entered draft but received #311.
* Jimmy Carter: Seven years in the Navy.
* Walter Mondale: Army 1951-1953
* John Glenn: WWII and Korea
* Tom Lantos: Served in Hungarian underground in WWII. Saved by Raoul Wallenberg.
Republicans; pro-war
* Dick Cheney: did not serve. Several deferments, the last by marriage.
* Dennis Hastert: did not serve.
* Tom DeLay: did not serve.
* Roy Blunt: did not serve.
* Bill Frist: did not serve.
* Mitch McConnell: did not serve.
* Rick Santorum: did not serve.
* Trent Lott: did not serve.
* John Ashcroft: did not serve. Seven deferments to teach business.
* Jeb Bush: did not serve.
* Karl Rove: did not serve. (Bush's Machiavelli)
* Saxby Chambliss: did not serve. "Bad knee." The man who attacked
Max Cleland's patriotism.
* Paul Wolfowitz: did not serve. Neocon warhawk
* Vin Weber: did not serve.
* Richard Perle: did not serve. Neocon warhawk
* Douglas Feith: did not serve.
* Elliot Abrams: did not serve.
* Richard Shelby: did not serve.
* Jon Kyl: did not serve.
* Tim Hutchinson: did not serve.
* Christopher Cox: did not serve.
* Newt Gingrich: did not serve.
* Don Rumsfeld: served in Navy (1954-57) as flight instructor.
* George W. Bush: failed to complete his six-year National Guard; got assigned
to Alabama so he could campaign for family friend running for U.S. Senate;
failed to show up for required medical exam, disappeared from duty.
* Ronald Reagan: due to poor eyesight, served in a non- combat role making
movies.
* B-1 Bob Dornan: Consciously enlisted after fighting was over in Korea.
* Phil Gramm: did not serve.
* John McCain: Vietnam. POW, Silver Star, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, Purple Heart and
Distinguished Flying Cross. Remember how the Bush campaign trashed him in the
Republican primaries in 2000?
* Dana Rohrabacher: did not serve.
* John M. McHugh: did not serve.
* JC Watts: did not serve.
* Jack Kemp: did not serve. "Knee problem, " although continued in
NFL for 8 years as quarterback. (Win one for the Gipper!!)
* Dan Quayle: Journalism unit of the Indiana National Guard.
* Rudy Giuliani: did not serve.
* George Pataki: did not serve.
* Spencer Abraham: did not serve.
* John Engler: did not serve.
* Lindsey Graham: National Guard lawyer.
*Arnold Schwarzenegger: AWOL from Austrian army base.
(Our gift from Austria.)
Pro-war pundits and preachers
* Sean Hannity: did not serve.
* Rush Limbaugh: did not serve (4-F with a 'pilonidal cyst.')
* Bill O'Reilly: did not serve.
* Michael Savage: did not serve.
* George Will: did not serve.
* Chris Matthews: did not serve.
* Paul Gigot: did not serve.
* Bill Bennett: did not serve.
* Pat Buchanan: did not serve.
* [John Wayne: did not serve]
* Bill Kristol: did not serve.
* Kenneth Starr: did not serve.
* Antonin Scalia: did not serve.
* Clarence Thomas: did not serve.
* Ralph Reed: did not serve.
* Michael Medved: did not serve.
* Charlie Daniels: did not serve.
* Ted Nugent: did not serve. (He only shoots at things that don't shoot back.)
…Keep this information circulating….
John Kerry did *not*, repeat, did not earn/win the Medal of Honor.
I won't debate his service record, but if he has a Medal of Honor, he bought it on ebay.
Cheers.
From Sedulia: Dear Phil, I'm sure you're right, but look again. The list does not claim John Kerry had a Medal of Honor. The man above him, Senator Inouye, did, and Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska did.
Posted by: Philip Halverson | 07 November 2006 at 16:35
*sigh*
why aren't more people aware of this?
Posted by: samantha | 07 November 2006 at 21:21