27-09-2013, 10:08 PM
(This post was last modified: 27-09-2013, 10:27 PM by Jim Hackett II.)
But then again I never ever had any need to confirm his truth. Never a scintilla of doubt about Gunny. Not Ever.
Reality as possible things and impossible things of Dealy Plaza confirmed all of it to me long, long ago.
The scuttlebutt in the enlisted ranks and spoken in quiet respectful tones was this:
"That man should be wearing the Congressional Medal of Honor but he wouldn't keep his mouth shut about the truth so the HQMC (8th and I in the Beltway)
downgraded his award to the Navy Cross". In that case the scuttlebutt has the ring of truth to me, then and now.
I have no way of knowing if this were truth or rumor, but I never had any doubt of his veracity.
The man was respected everywhere he went.
Thanks Phil.
Reality as possible things and impossible things of Dealy Plaza confirmed all of it to me long, long ago.
The scuttlebutt in the enlisted ranks and spoken in quiet respectful tones was this:
"That man should be wearing the Congressional Medal of Honor but he wouldn't keep his mouth shut about the truth so the HQMC (8th and I in the Beltway)
downgraded his award to the Navy Cross". In that case the scuttlebutt has the ring of truth to me, then and now.
I have no way of knowing if this were truth or rumor, but I never had any doubt of his veracity.
The man was respected everywhere he went.
Thanks Phil.
Read not to contradict and confute;
nor to believe and take for granted;
nor to find talk and discourse;
but to weigh and consider.
FRANCIS BACON
nor to believe and take for granted;
nor to find talk and discourse;
but to weigh and consider.
FRANCIS BACON