So is someone moving Reagan into that grave? He’s the one who claimed his US Army film unit had shot footage of the Nazi concentration camps as they were liberated, even said this to Yitzhak Shamir and Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal, among others, but never left Hollywood for the entire duration of the war. Of course, that might have been his dementia kicking in, but still…
And he’s hardly the only one. Let’s not forget the sentence “I continued flying with my unit for the next several years” by George W. Bush, which was entirely untrue.
The Vietnam story was not researched by the Times!!! It was done by GOP opposition research/ WWE candidate Linda McMahon. The Times should have least researched the GOP opposition claims.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201005180066
The Times did some research and claimed that Blumenthal was never on the Harvard swim team. The Captain of the swim team disagrees with the Times research. Blumenthal was on the swim team. I don’t think the Times does any research.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201005200041
Several actors were bomber pilots or real troops, like Robert Taylor,(pilot) and Lee Marvin (Marine)–Reagan narrated training films and only chased Nancy Davis while he was still married, not Germans or Japanese.
Many politicians and others have forgotten to say the “era” in “Viet Nam era veteran”. If all the guys I’ve met who claimed to be Green Berets in ‘Nam, actually WERE, it would have increased the Special Forces by a factor of four or five.
As a real Viet Nam veteran on disabilities because of it, it is irritating when these folks leave off the “era” part of being a vet. It doesn’t even start to match my disgust at those who deserted from service, take PRIDE in the fact they had “better things to do with THEIR time”, and then send our troops off to stupid wars we shouldn’t be in, or escalations way beyond what “reasonable response” would be. That would include Grenada, Libya, Nicaragua, and other times those who feared being part of the “force” use force.
trout, agreed. By the way, Jimmy Stewart was one of the notable exceptions as well - enrolled as a private, got himself transferred to combat duty despite celebrity status, led bomb groups personally into Germany to inspire them and at his orders these missions were uncounted. (The official count was 20, and the chances of making it past 24 were miniscule.) He made it to Colonel by the end of the war, and Brigadier General in the reserves - flying once as an observer in Vietnam, but suppressing any publicity. Too bad more folks didn’t learn from his example.
Ironically, Reagan promoted him to a Major General after his retirement from the reserves.
biemmezeta about 14 years ago
Louder
Motivemagus about 14 years ago
So is someone moving Reagan into that grave? He’s the one who claimed his US Army film unit had shot footage of the Nazi concentration camps as they were liberated, even said this to Yitzhak Shamir and Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal, among others, but never left Hollywood for the entire duration of the war. Of course, that might have been his dementia kicking in, but still… And he’s hardly the only one. Let’s not forget the sentence “I continued flying with my unit for the next several years” by George W. Bush, which was entirely untrue.
SuperGriz about 14 years ago
Guess who signed that into law? George W. Bush.
Colbert about 14 years ago
The Vietnam story was not researched by the Times!!! It was done by GOP opposition research/ WWE candidate Linda McMahon. The Times should have least researched the GOP opposition claims. http://mediamatters.org/blog/201005180066 The Times did some research and claimed that Blumenthal was never on the Harvard swim team. The Captain of the swim team disagrees with the Times research. Blumenthal was on the swim team. I don’t think the Times does any research. http://mediamatters.org/blog/201005200041
Dtroutma about 14 years ago
Several actors were bomber pilots or real troops, like Robert Taylor,(pilot) and Lee Marvin (Marine)–Reagan narrated training films and only chased Nancy Davis while he was still married, not Germans or Japanese.
Many politicians and others have forgotten to say the “era” in “Viet Nam era veteran”. If all the guys I’ve met who claimed to be Green Berets in ‘Nam, actually WERE, it would have increased the Special Forces by a factor of four or five.
As a real Viet Nam veteran on disabilities because of it, it is irritating when these folks leave off the “era” part of being a vet. It doesn’t even start to match my disgust at those who deserted from service, take PRIDE in the fact they had “better things to do with THEIR time”, and then send our troops off to stupid wars we shouldn’t be in, or escalations way beyond what “reasonable response” would be. That would include Grenada, Libya, Nicaragua, and other times those who feared being part of the “force” use force.
SherriannPederson about 14 years ago
Life here on earth has given many FREEDOMs they had never known in the past………….
Motivemagus about 14 years ago
trout, agreed. By the way, Jimmy Stewart was one of the notable exceptions as well - enrolled as a private, got himself transferred to combat duty despite celebrity status, led bomb groups personally into Germany to inspire them and at his orders these missions were uncounted. (The official count was 20, and the chances of making it past 24 were miniscule.) He made it to Colonel by the end of the war, and Brigadier General in the reserves - flying once as an observer in Vietnam, but suppressing any publicity. Too bad more folks didn’t learn from his example. Ironically, Reagan promoted him to a Major General after his retirement from the reserves.