The Department of Defense is making it clear: The military opposes awarding Purple Hearts to the victims of the Fort Hood shooting.
A Pentagon position paper, delivered to congressional staff on Friday and obtained by ABC News, says giving the award to the Fort Hood victims could "irrevocably alter the fundamental character of this time-honored decoration" and "undermine the prosecution of Major Nidal Hasan [the alleged Fort Hood shooter] by materially and directly compromising Major Hasan's ability to receive a fair trial."
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And how is getting shot in our on land differ from being wounded overseas?
I don't get their point, but then congress has lost touch with reality a looking time ago.
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And how is getting shot in our on land differ from being wounded overseas?
I don't get their point, but then congress has lost touch with reality a looking time ago.
I am thinking because he is one of our own. Makes them look bad that this guy was an officer. And nobody paid attention to the warning signs that he had mental problems.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
Do victims of terror overseas receive Purple Hearts?
I am not sure.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
To receive the Purple Heart, the Army's current regulations require that a soldier be injured by enemy action and receive documented treatment from a medical officer.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
I am proud to be an American and this story does make me proud.
It would have been a knee-jerk, emotion-based response to issue the fallen Soldiers in this case a Purple Heart.
They shouldn't have died. To call it a tragedy would be a misnomer. However, they didn't earn Purple Hearts in their deaths.
Furthermore, it would indicate that Major's guilt before his trial which he is legally entitled to receive.
Then, honoring the dead with Purple Hearts could in a twisted way give credence to this Major's demented way of thinking.
He wasn't at war with his comrades and any ridicule he may have experienced, he had to know that would happen BEFORE he joined the Army. That doesn't make it right to respond the way he did, obviously. In fact, it indicts him for responding the way he did. If he uses the taunts and verbal abuse he experienced as a defense, he'll be simply strengthening his motive to respond in the twisted way he did.
I don't think he'll get the death penalty.
I'd sentence him to 100 years of hard labor.
To sentence him to death would make a hero out of him, in at least in the eyes of some idiots.
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This liberal administration has a hard time with reality. They fail to recognize the Ft. Hood shooting as a terrorist act even though the killer has proclaimed that it was.
To characterize that mass murder as "workplace violence" is a joke and that alone should have told the American people all they needed to know about this administration and why it should not have been given another 4 years. America has lost it's collective mind. Or at least 52% of the population has.
Of course it is a very old liberal Democrat tactic to think that if they say something over and over again enough times, no matter how absurd it its, people will believe it.
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"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
I am proud to be an American and this story does make me proud.
It would have been a knee-jerk, emotion-based response to issue the fallen Soldiers in this case a Purple Heart.
They shouldn't have died. To call it a tragedy would be a misnomer. However, they didn't earn Purple Hearts in their deaths.
Furthermore, it would indicate that Major's guilt before his trial which he is legally entitled to receive.
Then, honoring the dead with Purple Hearts could in a twisted way give credence to this Major's demented way of thinking.
He wasn't at war with his comrades and any ridicule he may have experienced, he had to know that would happen BEFORE he joined the Army. That doesn't make it right to respond the way he did, obviously. In fact, it indicts him for responding the way he did. If he uses the taunts and verbal abuse he experienced as a defense, he'll be simply strengthening his motive to respond in the twisted way he did.
I don't think he'll get the death penalty.
I'd sentence him to 100 years of hard labor.
To sentence him to death would make a hero out of him, in at least in the eyes of some idiots.
There are some sideline aspects here that ought to be considered. The Purple Heart carries with it a commitment by the government to insure those harmed are cared for as long as they need care. In this case, as I understand it, because they are not designated as such, those that were wounded to the point they can no longer serve, are put out with little or no access to the care their wounds need.
I could be wrong about that, but I think I remember hearing something from one of the survivors making this case.
That being said, you bring up a very valid point that must be considered. That being designating these people as Purple Heart recipients, will in fact, look like the government is convicting Major Hasan befor his trial. I would prefer, they try him as a terrorist instead of trying him as a case of workplace violence. However, I am not sure which way is easier to get the proper convictions. I am for easy in that case.
I think we should all serve notice that once the process plays out, that these people be taken care of, and after the trial, consider changing the designation to Purple Heart.
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This liberal administration has a hard time with reality. They fail to recognize the Ft. Hood shooting as a terrorist act even though the killer has proclaimed that it was.
To characterize that mass murder as "workplace violence" is a joke and that alone should have told the American people all they needed to know about this administration and why it should not have been given another 4 years. America has lost it's collective mind. Or at least 52% of the population has.
Of course it is a very old liberal Democrat tactic to think that if they say something over and over again enough times, no matter how absurd it its, people will believe it.
CC1, I tend to agree, but as I think the way true this, I have come to reject the position of the talking heads.
It is just simply easier to convict Hasan for shooting these people as Workplace Violence than it would be to get a conviction related to terrorism.
At the end of the day, I want him in jail for life, or with a death conviction. I really dont care which. if getting there is easier by doing it as Workplace Violence then by all means do that.
Then after the fact, come back and name it what it is.
My heart and head refuse to give Obama the benifit of the doubt on pretty much anything. But in this, I think this really is the right course...So long as we come back after the fact and "clean it up". Now I will say, i dont hold out hope Bammer and company will fix it. I do hope the next president will.
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