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Title: The Greatest Hero America Never Knew
Source: D Magazine
URL Source: https://www.dmagazine.com/publicati ... f-waco-greatest-american-hero/
Published: Jul 1, 2010
Author: DAVID FEHERTY
Post Date: 2018-08-01 00:39:55 by Dead Culture Watch
Keywords: None
Views: 5066
Comments: 37

The Department of Homeland Security is not doing its job. As proof, I, David Feherty, a 17-year resident of the Dallas area but an Irishman by birth, recently became an American citizen. There goes the neighborhood—but yay, me! The reason I felt compelled to become an American is my Troops First Foundation, a nonprofit organization that does its best to improve the quality of life and future prospects of some of our most severely wounded servicemen and women. I became involved after my first trip to Iraq, on Thanksgiving in 2007, and it was there I first heard the name of Col. Robert Howard.

The name was always spoken with reverence, but I had no idea who he was. Then an Army Ranger I’ll call Leroy (because that’s his name) told me he couldn’t go on my T1F Taliban Pheasant Hunt in South Dakota last year because he had a chance to meet Bob Howard, who was on his deathbed in Waco. Leroy’s decision really piqued my interest. Nobody turns down the Taliban Pheasant Hunt— and, perhaps more telling, nobody goes to Waco without a really good reason. It was then that I decided I had to find out who Howard was.

A-googling I went. And it turned out that Robert Lewis Howard was a Green Beret and a TCU grad. He had appeared in two John Wayne movies, making a parachute jump in The Longest Day and playing an airborne instructor in The Green Berets—not exactly a stretch for him. Howard was the only soldier in the history of the United States to be nominated three times for the Medal of Honor, our country’s highest military decoration, which is awarded to members of the armed forces who distinguish themselves “conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while engaged in an action against an enemy of the United States.” The men who fought with Howard all agreed that he should have received a Medal of Honor for each one of his three citations—which explains why he was awarded two Distinguished Service Crosses (the second-highest honor, given in the Army). No matter. He had plenty of other gongs and ribbons. He had a Silver Star, several Bronze Stars, and eight Purple Hearts (though he was wounded 14 times). Then there was all the stuff awarded to him by the armed forces of other grateful nations.

For the life of me, I couldn’t understand why neither I nor anyone else outside of the Army had heard of this extraordinary American. I had theories. First, many of Howard’s actions in theater were still classified. We know he was in Laos and Cambodia before we knew we were in Laos and Cambodia, but we just don’t know what he was up to, apart from getting nominated for the Medal of Honor every few months or so. This was back in the days when a clandestine operation could be run without having to broadcast it on C-SPAN first.

Then there was the rest of the Vietnam war, the part we knew about. Howard received his Medal of Honor from Nixon in 1971, with his sweet little first-grade daughter Missy looking on from the front row. None of the TV networks covered the event. Though Audie Murphy and Alvin York both received a Medal of Honor for their actions in World War II and the Great War respectively, and got the ticker-tape parades, fame, and fortune they both deserved, Howard got nothing, because he fought in the war that the Flower Power generation, led by Jane Fonda and her ilk, who exercised the very rights that the men and women who served in Vietnam fought to protect, demonstrated against by (among other things) spitting in the faces of returning soldiers. You can probably guess how I feel about this issue.

So after reading up on Howard, I decided to follow my friend Leroy’s lead and head down to Waco to meet the man myself. But before I could get down there, on Wednesday, December 23, 2009, Col. Robert Howard died at the age of 70. The next day, the Associated Press ran a 10-sentence obituary. The New York Times and Washington Post followed with slightly longer obits. I couldn’t believe the man’s passing had generated so little notice.

I went to Waco anyway.

Read rest at link.

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#1. To: Dead Culture Watch, sneakypete (#0)

I just read the link and remember reading of his heroism in the past.

sneakypete will give his comments if he gets unbanned.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2018-08-01   1:06:59 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Fred Mertz (#1)

Pete has been banned?

What a shithole this place is.

Dead Culture Watch  posted on  2018-08-01   11:48:37 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Dead Culture Watch, sneakypete, A K A Stone, hondo68, Deckard (#2)

Correction: suspended

Reason: he claims homosexuals are born that way. I'm not sure how A K A Stone believes homosexuals are created. I guess I'll ask him by pinging him.

If he suspends me again, I'll see you guys around.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2018-08-01   12:07:54 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Fred Mertz, Dead Culture Watch, sneakypete, A K A Stone, Deckard, RLK (#3) (Edited)

I'm not sure how A K A Stone believes homosexuals are created.

I guess I'll ask him by pinging him.

I'll answer that bell.

A few are born with a propensity and attraction to the same sex. But very few.

What's happened in recent times? A dark agenda -- promoted by America's hijacked institutions -- has been grooming young confused people. These young confused people are encouraged to act even on the slightest inkling based on altered consciousness (drugs/alcohol), momentary weakness, curiosity, impetuousness, social media/cultural peer pressure (that happens to now be controlled by homosexuals.)

Egregiously, institutional propaganda and promotion of and COERCION and NORMALIZING of what is STILL a straight up Mental Illness, ARE being "created" in some warped social engineering experiment.

As of 1973, homosexuality was designated by the American Psychiatric Association as a Mental Illness. But Homos plotted and deceived the APA board members, then hijacked the vote. (That was the very same year SCOTUS was also hijacked and the bogus Roe v Wade decision legalized Baby-Murder in the womb. Coincidence?)

So let the record speak for itself -- the APA as well as America's institutions and positions in high places have been captured and became controlled by homosexual fascists and rogue secular humanists.

Historically, Homosexuality has been considered taboo for good reason(s): It's been routinely acknowledged as and recognized by ALL OF HUMANKIND since DAY ONE as wrong, a lie against nature, disgusting, unsanitary, and corruptible/destructive of spirit. Homosexuals are 99% deeply disturbed narcissists and moral relativists who also happen to hate God. Eventually, they begin hating themselves and everyone else.

As though these aren't reasons enough to reject homosexuality as "just another lifestyle", it is an "Abomination" against God's Law.

Btw -- RLK/Robert, are you ok?

Liberator  posted on  2018-08-01   13:30:29 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: Liberator (#9)

But Homos plotted and deceived the APA board members, then hijacked the vote.

Only about 1/3rd of registered APA members voted IIRC, the ones who were locked out said they would not have voted for normalizing that behavior.

CZ82  posted on  2018-08-02   8:00:58 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: CZ82, Fred Mertz, Dead Culture Watch, sneakypete, A K A Stone, Deckard, GrandIsland, RLK, Justified, (#18) (Edited)

In 1970 homosexual activists began a program of intimidation aimed at the APA:

"It was never a medical decision—and that’s why I think the action came so fast…It was a political move…That’s how far we’ve come in ten years. Now we even have the American Psychiatric Association running scared." Barbara Gittings, Homosexual Activist

The following year, 1971, homosexual activist Dr. Franklin Kameny wrote an open letter to the Psychiatric News threatening the APA with more and even worse disruptions:

"Our presence there was only the beginning of an increasingly intensive campaign by homosexuals to change the approach of psychiatry toward homosexuality or, failing that, to discredit psychiatry." Franklin Kameny

Members of the "National Gay Task Force" managed to get the addresses of APA members, and with-out identifying themselves, sent out harassing letters to all members demanding they vote to remove homosexuality from the list of mental illnesses in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), the APA's classification guide for mental disorders.

No new fact, set of facts, or scientific breakthrough triggered the removal of homosexuality from the list of mental illnesses in the 1974 seventh edition of DSM-II. It was dishonesty and intimidation by homosexual activists that moved 32.7 percent of APA's total membership to approve the change and normalize homosexuality.

Against the wishes of two-thirds of the organization's members, homosexuals were "cured" overnight by a vote. A psychiatric disorder that had been classified as a mental illness for 25 years (1948-1973) was suddenly banished by vote, by fiat, but not by valid science or by evaluating the pathology or lack of pathology surrounding homosexuality.

In this youtube clip Dr. Nicholas Cummings is interviewed by a representative from the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH). Dr. Cummings is a former President of the American Psychological Association (APA). He introduced the motion to declassify homosexuality as a mental illness to APA's Council of Representatives.

CZ, found an excellent YT source. It also backs up your claim as it is mentioned that 2/3 wishes/votes of that 1973 APA were negated/nullified/muffled. 'THE FIX' WUZ IN.

If you guys want THE truth, here it is.

Frankly, I'm surprised YouTube left this STUNNING EYE-WITNESS TESTIMONY OF THE FORMER APA PRESIDENT IN HIS OWN WORDS (he also mentioned: The beginning of war against "white males")

Bottom Line: In 1973 a coup was organized against the American Psychiatric Association to re-designate of homosexuality from MENTAL ILLNESS to "Meh, it's just "diversity".

Militant Homo-Fascists now LEAD all over-officiousness in gummint (via one-sided ill-logic and non-common sense and anti-God of course).

These militant mutants have also taken control of leadership positions in media, education, communications and business. Dig a bit into America's Leftist insanity, divisiveness and hate and aggressive Homo-Fascists are at its very core.

"Rank & File" Queers probably don't do a lot of hating. Many prefer logic and a common sense world. BUT MANY DO support the Gay Jihad. Most obviously won't and don't oppose a society controlled by Militant Queers, would they? IOW, a "Gay Caliphate".

This War won't be over until one side or the other "wins".

Liberator  posted on  2018-08-02   13:06:45 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: Liberator (#20)

CZ82, Fred Mertz, Dead Culture Watch, sneakypete, A K A Stone, Deckard, GrandIsland, RLK, Justified,

And HOW is any of this related in ANY way to the legend of Medal of Honor awardee Robert Howard?

Why not start a new thread if you want do discuss homosexuality? I can guarantee you that Bob would not be amused to discover his name connected to homosexuality if he were still alive.

sneakypete  posted on  2018-08-02   13:20:18 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#25. To: sneakypete (#22)

Why not start a new thread if you want do discuss homosexuality? I can guarantee you that Bob would not be amused to discover his name connected to homosexuality if he were still alive.

Yeah, I get it. But it's too late for that.

Bob's "amusement" lies elsewhere in another dimension at this point.

That said, Bob's story, your testimony and viewings are bumped, giving others a chance at reading IT.

Liberator  posted on  2018-08-02   13:26:13 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#28. To: Liberator (#25)

BTW, you’ve always been one of my favorite posters here, and I regret never getting together with you for a lunch when I lived in NJ. (Chuck_Wagon too.)

Dead Culture Watch  posted on  2018-08-02   23:06:24 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#30. To: Dead Culture Watch, Chuck Wagon (#28)

I regret never getting together with you for a lunch when I lived in NJ. (Chuck_Wagon too.)

Right -- you were a Jersey Guy too, right? (until your move to what -- the Northwest? Yeah, coulda, shoulda. That would have been cool. (why didn't we think of it?) And ...is Chuck still around somewhere?

While at FR (2006) I did manage to get together with 3 other Freepers. We went to NYC, went to Mickey Mantle's restaurant/bar -- had a memorable time. Aaah, but that was then. Wouldn't be able to pull that kind of outing off these days.

Hey, thanks -- I appreciate your kind words. Same with you, brutha. I've always considered you one of those solid, sane dudes that I could hang out with.

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