purple heart gifted to yellow heart
this is so pathetic it made me laugh out loud. then i just got mad. you have to wonder what really happened to this clown, bill thomas, in vietnam that he would be make such a stupid decision 42 years after being injured there. john mccain has a reason for his delusional behavior—he was a POW for five years. that doesn’t excuse his idiocy now, but it certainly helps to explain it.
bill thomas, on the other hand, is just—and i don’t throw this out there lightly—a fucking moron. sure, he can do whatever he wants to do with his purple heart; he earned it. but by giving it to a chickenhawk draft-dodging child of privilege who reneged on his commitment to serve a full term in the champagne unit of the national guard, bill thomas is sullying the service and sacrifice of every other recipient of the purple heart.
shame on bush for a) accepting it, and b) making a spectacle of it by inviting bill and his wife to present it in person. with people like bill thomas and george bush ‘serving’ this country, it’s no wonder we’re so fucked.
h/t to crooks and liars for linking to the story so i could start my week off good and pissed. here’s the original story in the killeen daily herald.
