RIP Rear Admiral Jerimiah Denton,USN (ret)

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By Emily Langer (http://www.washingtonpost.com/emily-langer/2011/03/02/ABmu4sM_page.html), Updated: Friday, March 28, 9:21 AM E-mail the writer


Jeremiah A. Denton Jr., a retired Navy rear admiral and former U.S. senator who survived nearly eight years of captivity in North Vietnamese prisons, and whose public acts of defiance and patriotism came to embody the sacrifices of American POWs in Vietnam, died March 28 at a hospice in Virginia Beach. He was 89.
The cause was complications from a heart ailment, said his son Jim Denton. Adm. Denton was a native of Alabama, where in 1980 he became the state’s first Republican to win election to the Senate since Reconstruction.

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(AP) - Adm. Jeremiah A. Denton Jr., an American prisoner of the North Vietnamese, is shown here during a 1966 recorded interview in which he blinked the word “torture” in Morse code.

[Max Rockatansky]

A loss of a good man. Fair Winds and Following Seas, Admiral! http://jhelbert.webs.com/military.gif http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/images/smilies/patriot.gif

[Mr. Right]

Don't worry Admiral, when they bury Jane, I'll be around soon enough with a full bladder.

[exotix]

Don't worry Admiral, when they bury Jane, I'll be around soon enough with a full bladder.
Don't forget to pee on the graves of everybody who got us into Viet Nam while you're at it.

[Max Rockatansky]

Don't forget to pee on the graves of everybody who got us into Viet Nam while you're at it.

To quote Sherman Potter, "What I'll do in his grave won't pass for flowers!" I'd start with LBJ of the Democratic Party.

[exotix]

To quote Sherman Potter, "What I'll do in his grave won't pass for flowers!" I'd start with LBJ of the Democratic Party.
Don't forget to pee on Nixons' grave while you're at it ... who said he was the only one who get us out of Viet Nam but you had to elect 'em first ... of course 15,000 more G.I's died before he did.

[Max Rockatansky]

Don't forget to pee on Nixons' grave while you're at it ... who said he was the only one who get us out of Viet Nam but you had to elect 'em first ... of course 15,000 more G.I's died before he did.

A President is stuck with finishing a job. Nixon's campaign motto was "Peace with Honor". Blaming him for what LBJ did in the previous 5+ years would be like blaming Obama for all the deaths under his watch in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[exotix]

A President is stuck with finishing a job. Nixon's campaign motto was "Peace with Honor". Blaming him for what LBJ did in the previous 5+ years would be like blaming Obama for all the deaths under his watch in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Don't forget to pee on McKooks' grave too ... who got us into Iraq ... then did a Nixon ... 'You have to elect me because I'm the only one who knows how to get us out'

[BB-35]

<sigh>We're honoring the man,not the war.

[Blackrook]

We had to fight the Communists, and the only problem was in not taking the war to the enemy. Our goal should have been the elimination of Ho Chi Minh and the North Vietnamese Communist leadership. We did not pursue that goal, but instead tried to get them to negotiate.

[Mr. Right]

Don't forget to pee on the graves of everybody who got us into Viet Nam while you're at it.

I'll make sure that I wet Jane's down well for what she did to the Americans being held in the Hanoi Hilton. E, you know as well as anyone, what she did should have gotten her a date with the electric chair. She should have been arrested as soon as he set foot on U.S. soil for collaborating with the enemy. Shirk the blame off on the ones who started the war, but you never saw or heard tell of any American celebrity screwing over imprisoned Americans in the manner Fonda did. May she burn in Hell.

[patrickt]

Don't forget to pee on Nixons' grave while you're at it ... who said he was the only one who get us out of Viet Nam but you had to elect 'em first ... of course 15,000 more G.I's died before he did.

But he did get us out. When LBJ was told the war couldn't be won with the rules of engagement he demanded he said he didn't care what it cost but he wouldn't be the first U.S. president to lose a war. Well, we all know what it cost. On the bright side, the idiot liberals still pretend in was Nixon's War.

[exotix]

I'll make sure that I wet Jane's down well for what she did to the Americans being held in the Hanoi Hilton. E, you know as well as anyone, what she did should have gotten her a date with the electric chair. She should have been arrested as soon as he set foot on U.S. soil for collaborating with the enemy. Shirk the blame off on the ones who started the war, but you never saw or heard tell of any American celebrity screwing over imprisoned Americans in the manner Fonda did. May she burn in Hell.
Fonda saved American lives that's a fact.

[exotix]

But he did get us out. When LBJ was told the war couldn't be won with the rules of engagement he demanded he said he didn't care what it cost but he wouldn't be the first U.S. president to lose a war. Well, we all know what it cost. On the bright side, the idiot liberals still pretend in was Nixon's War.
Don't forget to pee on Rummy's grave too ... who advised LBJ to escalate Viet Nam (with more troops) and Bush to wage war in Iraq (with less troops)

[Peter1469]

Don't forget to pee on Rummy's grave too ... who advised LBJ to escalate Viet Nam (with more troops) and Bush to wage war in Iraq (with less troops)

Each military action must use the same number of troops?

[Max Rockatansky]

Fonda saved American lives that's a fact.

Disagreed. OTOH, even she admits her actions in Hanoi were stupid and she was duped.

http://www.snopes.com/military/fonda.asp

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/02/jane-fonda-vietnam-photo-oprah_n_2994929.html

That Vietnam photograph (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/23/list-top-10-jane-fonda-mistakes/) has followed Fonda ever since -- and she has apologized for it publicly and privately many times over. In this clip from an episode of "Oprah's Master Class," (http://www.oprah.com/own-master-class/Oprahs-Master-Class-Jane-Fonda) she does so once again, calling her appearance in the photo "an unforgivable mistake" and sharing the details of how the photograph happened in the first place.

In the clip, Fonda explains that she was taken to a North Vietnam military site on the last day of her visit, even though she did not want to go. "I was an emotional wreck by [then]," she remembers. "I don't know if I was set up or not. I was an adult. I take responsibility for my actions."

That's when a small ceremony began. "These soldiers sang a song; I sang a song in feeble Vietnamese," she says. "Everyone was laughing. I was led to a gun site and I sat down. And I was laughing and clapping, and there were pictures taken."

[exotix]

Disagreed. OTOH, even she admits her actions in Hanoi were stupid and she was duped.

http://www.snopes.com/military/fonda.asp

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/02/jane-fonda-vietnam-photo-oprah_n_2994929.html
If it wasn't for Liberal hippies and Kent State we'd still be in Viet Nam.

[Max Rockatansky]

If it wasn't for Liberal hippies and Kent State we'd still be in Viet Nam.

Impossible to say. The Democrats got us into the war and Liberals protested the war. It took a Republican President to end the war.

The Cold War was unlike any other war in history by virtue of the fact no major adversaries in history had ever possessed enough nuclear weapons to destroy the planet.

[exotix]

Impossible to say. The Democrats got us into the war and Liberals protested the war. It took a Republican President to end the war.

The Cold War was unlike any other war in history by virtue of the fact no major adversaries in history had ever possessed enough nuclear weapons to destroy the planet.
Why did Eisenhower initiate SEATO ?

[Max Rockatansky]

Part of the Cold War. Why?

[exotix]

Part of the Cold War. Why?
No, what I mean is ... who was the only Western Colonial nation to not exit (Asia) Southeast Asia after WWII ... and why was that important for Eisenhower to protect that nations' colony ?

[Max Rockatansky]

No, what I mean is ... who was the only Western Colonial nation to not exit (Asia) Southeast Asia after WWII ... and why was that important for Eisenhower to protect that nations' colony ?

Why don't you cut to the chase and say what you are getting at?

[exotix]

Why don't you cut to the chase and say what you are getting at?
Why was Eisenhower outraged about Dien Bien Phu ?

[Max Rockatansky]

You aren't cutting to the chase, exotix

Do you disagree this is all related to the Cold War as I posted above?

[ChoppedLiver]

If it wasn't for Liberal hippies and Kent State we'd still be in Viet Nam.

First off, liberal hippy scum are just war wimps.
Secondly, Kent State was NOT a mistake in American history.
I'm guessin' here that you're one of those who called McCain a traitor. And you called him so simply because he was a Republican running for president. McCain did NOTHING in his military career to even be remotely be considered as traitorist.
But I'm sure you wouldn't do the same thing for Adm. Denton if he was a libtard running for president, eh?

:cool:

[Max Rockatansky]

Secondly, Kent State was NOT a mistake in American history.

Disagreed. Shooting unarmed civilians and firing so indiscriminately into a crowd that innocent victims are shot is a HUGE fucking mistake.

http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/evans/his135/events/kentstate70/kentstate.html

During the Kent State Massacre (also known as the Kent State Shootings,) 4 college students were killed and 9 others wounded when the Ohio National Guard fired shots into a crowd during an anti-war protest on campus grounds.....The turbulence peaked on May 4th, when 3000 people (approximately 1,500 demonstrators and 1,500 bystanders) gathered in the University Commons to object to the National Guard presence on campus as well as to the Vietnam War. As the National Guard tried to disband the crowd, discord grew with rock throwing and yelling as the guards were trapped on a field for approximately 10 minutes. Only after the guards returned to the top of a hill, "twenty-eight of the more than seventy Guardsmen turned suddenly and fired" their weapons. (Lewis and Hensley,dept.kent.edu/sociology/lewis/LEWIHEN.htm (http://dept.kent.edu/sociology/lewis/LEWIHEN.htm), 2006) "A total of 67 bullets were fired" in a time frame "that lasted only thirteen seconds." (Kent State shootings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_%20State_shootings)) Innocent bystanders were among the victims, with 2 of the 4 students killed being caught in the fire while walking to class.

https://vintageeveryday.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/thekentstateshootings-may4252c197005.jpg?w=640&h=434

[ChoppedLiver]

Disagreed. Shooting unarmed civilians and firing so indiscriminately into a crowd that innocent victims are shot is a HUGE fucking mistake.

The only mistake that was made is the Guard didn't fire enough bullets.
One of these days, libtards will learn what "peaceful protest" actually means. The guard wimping out that day just led to the problem of libtards getting worse. And louder. And more violent.

:cool:

[Max Rockatansky]

The only mistake that was made is the Guard didn't fire enough bullets.

Tough talk shooting down innocent civilians. If police indiscriminately shot at a carjacker or purse thief and several rounds penetrated your home killing some loved ones, are you okay with that too or will you backpedal?

[exotix]

First off, liberal hippy scum are just war wimps.
Secondly, Kent State was NOT a mistake in American history.
I'm guessin' here that you're one of those who called McCain a traitor. And you called him so simply because he was a Republican running for president. McCain did NOTHING in his military career to even be remotely be considered as traitorist.
But I'm sure you wouldn't do the same thing for Adm. Denton if he was a libtard running for president, eh?

:cool:
McKook is a high-treason traitor, war criminal and fake war hero ... not to mention he's not a natural-born U.S. Citizen who ran for president.

[Ransom]

McCain a POW, refused early release, came home and was elected to the Senate. He's not a war criminal, nor traitor, and happened to be the only natural born citizen in that election. Exotix thinks the debt is decreasing, when the opposite is true. Thus what he says there...the opposite is true.

Bullshit walks and exotix on a walkathon.

[exotix]

McCain a POW, refused early release, came home and was elected to the Senate. He's not a war criminal, nor traitor, and happened to be the only natural born citizen in that election. Exotix thinks the debt is decreasing, when the opposite is true. Thus what he says there...the opposite is true.

Bullshit walks and exotix on a walkathon.
Yes ?
What was the valor McKook accomplished that makes him a war hero ?

[Gerrard Winstanley]

Yes ?
What was the valor McKook accomplished that makes him a war hero ?
You've never heard the story of his time as a POW?

[Captain Obvious]

You've never heard the story of his time as a POW?

Eddie doesn't get out much.

[exotix]

You've never heard the story of his time as a POW?
I have ... McKook disobeyed orders and was shot down ... captured then got his his ass beat as a POW resulting in limited use of his arms ... how does this make him a war hero ?

[Gerrard Winstanley]

I have ... McKook disobeyed orders and was shot down ... captured then got his his ass beat as a POW resulting in limited use of his arms ... how does this make him a war hero ?
Not a word about McCain's politics, but I doubt I could have survived the ordeal he did. How about you?

[Ransom]

Yes ?
What was the valor McKook accomplished that makes him a war hero ?

Did I use the word war hero, exotix? I said the man was a POW. He was offered early release by his captors because of who his father was...he declined and remained at the Hanoi Hilton. He made it home and was elected Senator from Arizona......and re-elected many times. I wanted to everyone to know that it is you who believes the debt is decreasing.....thus believing the opposite of reality....and the opposite of reality is what you wrote. McCain isn't a traitor, nor a war criminal, but he was the lone American running when he ran against Obama in the election of 2008.

Your lying doesn't surprise anyone exotix, your credibility destroyed by Member Ransom on this blog months ago. Moving on.

[Captain Obvious]

Did I use the word war hero, exotix? I said the man was a POW. He was offered early release by his captors because of who his father was...he declined and remained at the Hanoi Hilton. He made it home and was elected Senator from Arizona......and re-elected many times. I wanted to everyone to know that it is you who believes the debt is decreasing.....thus believing the opposite of reality....and the opposite of reality is what you wrote. McCain isn't a traitor, nor a war criminal, but he was the lone American running when he ran against Obama in the election of 2008.

Your lying doesn't surprise anyone exotix, your credibility destroyed by Member Ransom on this blog months ago. Moving on.

Eddie had his demonization ready in hand, he wasn't waiting for the signal.

[Ransom]

Not a word about McCain's politics, but I doubt I could have survived the ordeal he did. How about you?

When does exotix raise political issues, he attacks the person to deflect from the reality of the person he worships. And that person's failed Presidency.

[exotix]

Not a word about McCain's politics, but I doubt I could have survived the ordeal he did. How about you?

Did I use the word war hero, exotix? I said the man was a POW. He was offered early release by his captors because of who his father was...he declined and remained at the Hanoi Hilton. He made it home and was elected Senator from Arizona......and re-elected many times. I wanted to everyone to know that it is you who believes the debt is decreasing.....thus believing the opposite of reality....and the opposite of reality is what you wrote. McCain isn't a traitor, nor a war criminal, but he was the lone American running when he ran against Obama in the election of 2008.

Your lying doesn't surprise anyone exotix, your credibility destroyed by Member Ransom on this blog months ago. Moving on.Well that's because McPalin was the greatest thing he ever did in life ... these are his own words ... LOL.

[Ransom]

Note Winstanley, he didn't answer the question whether he could have survived such an ordeal. But we both know the answer.

[exotix]

Note Winstanley, he didn't answer the question whether he could have survived such an ordeal. But we both know the answer.
How did you manage to survive the FEMA Camp Gulags Obama sent you too because he's a socialist/communist/national socialist fascist kenyan muslin terrorist with a bone through his nose ?

[Ransom]

How did you manage to survive the FEMA Camp Gulags Obama sent you too because he's a socialist/communist/national socialist fascist kenyan muslin terrorist with a bone through his nose ?

Are you in Colorado by chance?

[Ransom]

How did you manage to survive the FEMA Camp Gulags Obama sent you too because he's a socialist/communist/national socialist fascist kenyan muslin terrorist with a bone through his nose ?

At least Obama is decreasing our national debt.

[exotix]

At least Obama is decreasing our national debt.
In your face ... LOL

[Ransom]

In your face ... LOL

Exotix's credibility=0

Ransom's proven theorum.

[exotix]

Exotix's credibility=0

Ransom's proven theorum.
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