I know it isn’t possible that I am the only one that saw
this story, the day it ran, and thought to myself (actually out loud) “This is
bullshit”. You see, one thing I learned
while in the Army is that the first report is always wrong. That is VASTLY different than anything the
media does, where if the first report is wrong, they will hammer the wrong
point until idiots by into it.
Here are some things you should look for in a person
claiming to be a veteran.
1. Other than David Hackworth, Wesley Clark, and
Douglas McArthur, I know of NO veteran who wore their rank or achievement on
their sleeve. By that, no veteran I
know, regales others with tales of their grandeur, regardless of how grand they
may be.
2. Related
to #1 above, I know of no Vietnam veteran, “activists”. Most Vietnam veterans I know have done what
99% of them do…..they get on with their lives, they live, they produce, they
have haircuts, and clothes that are not a hodgepodge of crap from a surplus
store.
3. Most
veterans are anonymous….they do not advertise.
Granted, you will see the old man in Walmart with the hat, identifying
himself as a Vietnam or Korean vet, and I ALWAYS go out of my way to shake
their hand, because I don’t know. That
guy may BE a hero, but he may have been a clerk…I don’t know.
4. Most
veterans, myself included, don’t care.
Most were not heroes (I certainly was not). Most have very elevated opinions of what a
hero is, and most do not think, regardless of their own actions, that they
achieve their OWN estimation of hero.
Most are just normal.
When I graduated from college, and pinned a gold bar on my
collar, I THOUGHT I knew everything and the next, almost 25 years proved me
wrong EVERY SINGLE DAY. For my branch,
or specialty, I chose Infantry…my thought being that I could be a scientist or
technician or administrator in the civilian world. I wasn’t blood thirsty, not a natural born
killer, if you know me you know that I was the most unlikely infantry officer
there was, until there was another. I
went to flight school about a year in, and over the next two decades learned to
fly five different aircraft, patrolled the East/West German/Czechoslovakian
border, went to Desert Storm, flew and led in combat, returned to the Aviation
Center as an instructor, commanded two aviation companies, was the executive
officer of a battalion and a brigade, the operations officer of a battalion,
trained other young officers…then retired.
And at NO POINT did I ever do anything that I would consider heroic, or
even worth mentioning.
And I put that out there for one reason…you do not have to
be a journalist or a detective, to know that this entire Covington Catholic
story was bullshit from the outset…..
Today, you and I, veterans and Americans, know that the
entire event was staged, and manipulated, to portray a warrior who wasn’t, as
being oppressed by those that he would oppress.
Nathan Phillips is not a hero of note.
And the Covington Catholic kids are not virulent racists.
But the media that brought you this story…..they might be……
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