it bring to mind that song WHERE all the flowes gone? it was so popular then

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I’m very pleased these vets are finally getting this recognition, they earned that and more, it was a long time coming. They came home to derision from an angry bunch of deranged mobs, no parades or ceremonies. Let that never happen again.

My father passed away in 2000 and we later received a signed certificate from GWB honoring his service to the nation. Shortly after Obama’s election, we got another one exactly the same signed by BHO, are we going to get another one in 2012? the first one was just fine.

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Thanks, Old Trooper.

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Wordsmith, the 11th ACR is the 11th Armored Cav Regiment.

http://www.11thcavnam.com/

Respectfully submitted.

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The Pretender in Chief surrounded by Men of better character than He will ever possess.
A cheap and tawdry Photo Op. Period. America elected a Media Whore, not a President.
If the Kenyan thinks that this takes the heat off his responsibility to reinforce the Troops
in AF/PAK , he is only fooling himself. We know better.

Honor given this late is like sending dead flowers.

I respectfully refuse to comment any further on this event.

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This is a day late and a dollar short. These guys and all the rest of the Viet Nam veterans, both living and dead, should have been honored at the time of their return to the US. But I am glad some of them are finally honored. This Ahole is a representative of the people who trashed these guys and threw offal at them and spit on them. Disgraceful. As an above poster said he is not honoring the present day troops by sending help instead of just letting them be killed needlessly. Also, his stupid PC war methods. This grifter knows nothing else but how to campaign and have photo ops celebrating his wonderfulness.

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He may honor this troop today but tomorrow and more specifically on November 9, 2009, the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the liberation of Eastern Europe Obama and his Administration will not be present at the huge celebrations planned in Berlin. I believe that is because to Obama and his WH employees November 9, 2009 is a nabka a catastrophe where the glorious Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact fell to the evil American Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H W Bush. Mr. Obama and his acolytes may have had tears in their eyes that day, but not out of happiness, but sadness of what might have been (but which still might be were Mr. Obama to get his way in the USA). So while this honor is due to that troop, the man presenting the honor is so undeserving that he is shamed by the heroism of those who are honored.

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I completely agree with both savage and Aleric. And, savage24, thank you for your service very, very much. I question most of what this president’s motives are, and know that he doesn’t like the military, nor seems to want to help them succeed in their current situation in Afghanistan.

I look at the faces of these veterans, and I think at that moment they care more about being honored after all this time in spite of Obama’s views on the military and his ‘foreign policy’.
Later, they can and might say about him what they truly think about those things.

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Its called a feint Savage, he wants you to look at what his left hand is doing while not noticing what his right hand is up to. lol

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As a vietnam Vet, all I can say is, why isn’t he honoring those troops in Afghanistan by sending the needed troops? He claimed that was a just war but is working to surrender it with dignity. That’s what happened in Korea and Vietnam. Politicians will never learn that there is no honor in surrendering, only weakness. We have a honorable military, what we lack is a honorable government!

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