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Topic: Once There Were Giants |
Once There Were Giants
Townhall, by Paul Greenberg
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Posted By:snakeoil, 12/25/2012 2:49:23 PM
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| "Second Lieutenant Daniel K. Inouye distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism in action on 21 April 1945, in the vicinity of San Terenzo, Italy. While attacking a defended ridge guarding an important road junction, Second Lieutenant Inouye skillfully directed his platoon through a hail of automatic weapon and small arms fire, in a swift enveloping movement that resulted in the capture of an artillery and mortar post and brought his men to within 40 yards of the hostile force. Emplaced in bunkers and rock formations, the enemy halted the advance with crossfire from three machine guns.
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Off hand I´d say Inouye is at least 3 feet taller than John Kerry. Didn´t care for his politics but he earned his Medal of Honor.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Italiano, 12/25/2012 3:12:32 PM (No. 9083233)
With very few exceptions, today´s elected officials are among the worst this country has to offer.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
SoCalGal, 12/25/2012 3:50:01 PM (No. 9083277)
His Medal of Honor was well-deserved. But a giant in the Senate? Not so much.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
woofwoofwoof, 12/25/2012 3:59:08 PM (No. 9083284)
MOH, yes.
Fifty years in the Senate doing nothing and in the end supporting a disgusting, degenerate Democratic party, no.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
lakerman1, 12/25/2012 4:57:39 PM (No. 9083325)
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
lakerman1, 12/25/2012 5:01:27 PM (No. 9083328)
I had to revert back to my original screen
name.
The worst thing that Inouye and felloow senator Akaka did was to push through a law affecting ´native hawaiians´ giving them capacious rights much like native americans. The problem with that is that it provides for goodies for the ill defined native hawaiians, to the exclusion of whites.
I suspect that law will be a court-entangled mess for decades to come. It may be worse than the Pigford case.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
gustavwasa, 12/25/2012 5:17:47 PM (No. 9083343)
He was also one of the biggest pork-barrel guys on the Hill. MOH hero, Senate disaster.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
cym rhondda, 12/25/2012 8:07:30 PM (No. 9083473)
...and that my friends is what happens when the President of the United States has your service record doctored fifty years later.
Mr. William Jefferson Clinton, is so disgusting that he thinks nothing of fabricating records just to award one of his friends the Congressional Medal of Honor.
This Senator deserved the Medal of Honor about as much as John Kerry deserves to be referred to as an American citizen.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Sfacheem, 12/25/2012 10:09:33 PM (No. 9083587)
His political integrity was in the arm he lost.
He was another liberal tax-and-spend hate-whitey Democrat, and as such, was a carbuncle on the arse of our country for decades.
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