toomuchtime_
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It's good that you are focused in on the important policy differences between Trump and Clinton like how each would respond to a soldier honoring him/her by gifting his purple heart as a show of confidence. Of course, no one would offer Clinton his/her purple heart after she dishonored it by dragging a dead soldiers body across the stage at the convention just to take a cheap shot at Trump.Trump always wanted a Purple Heart?
Did he even know what the medal represents?
Right. Who would say that. And then add 'this is much easier'.
I have a friend who arrived in Vietnam 3 days after the Tet Offensive started. They were flown by helo out into the bush, they stepped off the copter and his CO took a few steps and stepped on a Bouncing Betty (anti-personell mine) that nearly blew off his legs. My friend said his first thought was "there is no way I will survive 13 months".
He had a couple months left and was a combat engineer all geared up in mine-clearing gear sitting in the back of an open truck with 14 other guys in it. They were driving along the coast on a road that wound down a mountainside towards the water. Some Vietcong attacked them with grenades and MG from above. He said the grenades exploded in the truck and he just remembers in slow motion tumbling up and flipping as all the wires of his gear tangled around him. He was thrown down below the road and the truck stopped and rolled back so it was between him and the enemy. All the men in the back of the truck as well as the driver we killed. Only their interpreter survived with him. He was shot four times, twice through both legs. And of course received the Purple Heart.
How anyone can be flippant about these things is beyond me.