November 26, 2000 Omaha Herald news article listed Phillips as 45 years of age making him 63 eighteen years later.
He would have been 17 years of age in 1972.
I don’t believe he was in Vietnam.
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- -- Aristotle
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What? I have never heard that term used ever.
CNN said Phillips was a “Vietnam Veteran”
"2Timothy 3 "But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away"
christiefan915 (01-21-2019), Guno צְבִי (01-21-2019)
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
Rune (01-22-2019)
He could have enlisted but the question is did he service in Vietnam. If not he is not a Vietnam veteran as alleged by the media, only a veteran.
I love the great investigative reporting by the so called journalists.
An excerpt from this article is dated November 21, 2000. I'm wondering why you guys think he has to be a liar about his service.
"...There's only one flag at the site that could remotely be called a protest banner. Wedged into a pile of cut logs next to the main tepee, it demands attention for American soldiers missing in action in Vietnam.
"I'm a veteran," says Phillips, "a Marine Corps infantryman in the '70s, and I'm a patriot, and those soldiers need remembering."
Phillips says he was removed from his mother's care at age 5 and raised by a white family until 17, when he joined the Marines. As a result of his upbringing, he explains bitterly, he has lost much of his Omaha culture."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archi...=.d239ab444483
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ThatOwlWoman (01-21-2019)
Yes he did.
In the CNN interview he says:
“And I’m a Vietnam Veteran and I know. . . . . . .”
This boils down to Phillips with an agenda along with the other two groups.
Everyone has an agenda nowadays and they love the liberal media to cover it.
tinfoil (01-21-2019)
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