Confirmed by WAPO- Native American Nathan Phillips Never Served in Vietnam – IOTW Report

Confirmed by WAPO- Native American Nathan Phillips Never Served in Vietnam

An overlooked correction to a story published at WAPO-

Correction: Earlier versions of this story incorrectly said that Native American activist Nathan Phillips fought in the Vietnam War. Phillips said he served in the U.S. Marines but was never deployed to Vietnam.

ht/ udogu & Bad Brad

 

 

44 Comments on Confirmed by WAPO- Native American Nathan Phillips Never Served in Vietnam

  1. Stolen valor always “miss-characterize” their service….”I served during Vietnam” implying to the average reader / listener that he was in Vietnam but skillfully leaving enough “wiggle room” to deny your assumption.

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  2. Being a veteran is VERY important to the left, as long as there guy is, and your guy isn’t. GHW Bush was a vet, BJ Clinton wasn’t (he was a documented draft dodger); no big deal. Same with Bob Dole vs Clinton. GW Bush was a vet, so was Al Gore and John Fucking Kerry, but Bush was the wrong kind of vet, so he became a “draft dodger”. Hussein Obama wasn’t a vet, and John McCain was, so no big deal (John McCain only became a “war hero” after he went after Trump). Trump was not a vet due to being 4F, so he was a “draft dodger”, Hillary really, REALLY wanted to be a Marine, but those sexists wouldn’t let her enlist, but she WAS under sniper fire in Bosnia.

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  3. I read, don’t recall which outlet, when it first broke, that quoted him as being in the “military during Vietnam time”.
    I’ve heard tons of guys through the years, use similar wordage as a prevarication to lead to the assumption of serving there… all of’em full of shit and recognizable as such to anyone paying attention. The newspukes hear/report what they want to as we all know.
    But, misquoted or not, the guy is an asswipe of the highest order of asswipery

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  4. I believe this.
    Being the cynic that I am, I have curiosities about the verification of his theatre of service. So far, the only source I have seen is from the washington post. That is owned by bezos, who also owns amazon. He also provides storage for the Department of Defense and Pentagon through cloud storage. Did he access that information to make this announcement? I know other organizations are pursuing this guy’s history, but they have all also said that such a pursuit takes time. Then suddenly, wp has it.
    I’m just wondering about that, and also if there might have been an inappropriate breach of security to obtain it.
    just silly me, I guess, but I wonder about these things.

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  5. Whoa! That’s wierd! I just watched the 2-hr video of the event at the Lincoln Memorial where Nathan Phillips confronted the Covington High students. I was going to paste it in here for you guys but….it’s GONE! JUST! Uploaded by John Duncan. A bit over two hours, but the important stuff was at 1:06 where Phillips comes over from the far corner of the plaza headed right towards the students. They had just finished what I presumed to be a sports cheer: one boy tore off his shirt and hat and pantomimed a “Hulk” impersonation, turning at the last to face down the Black Israelites who had been mercilessly taunting the boys. Then all of the boys started jumping up and down chanting. THAT seemed to be what brought Phillips over with his drum and entourage. They walked right in to the middle of the group. The most popular video shows him beating the drum in the one boy’s face, but at that moment the rest of the kids were doing their jumping chant towards the Black Israelites NOT the Native American guy. If you can find the whole thing, scroll to 1:06 to catch the action. I gotta learn how to save this stuff on my computer before it’s gone. Any hints for me on how to do that?

    Oh, and just FYI, acute alcohol dependence will reduce the bone density in the jaw and cause teeth to be loosened.

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  6. Strict diet of CNN coached by Michael Strathan,. Will have a morning show and game show for life, this one will,,
    Excuse my earlier comment, Otis was white, makes it a never will be for network TV

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  7. MerryMouse: “…and cause teeth to be loosened.”

    I imagine the same thing could happen the next time he starts telling stories, especially in a bar.
    That video will be back.

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  8. @ the good general – I really dig Wictor BUT to say he was the first to post that line? He needs to come to IOTW more…

    We have been talking about this for three days now!

    THat was from the Vogue article…

    MAGA2016
    KAG2020

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  9. Makes Live PD look like it is, censored crap. Thanks!
    Black Israelite’s taken out, shame,,, no offense meant, just leaves questions, that’s all.

    Late update, Just tried to watch it, sorry, a well planned drone strike here is needed.

  10. there are and always will be bad exJarheads!

    The Russian sleeper who killed President in 63.

    the multimillionaire lawyer who got Patty Hearst and OK off – F. Lee Baily.

    Most of us are good, some very good.

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