CelebTV call Tom Selleck "An American Hero"

[USCH]

Sometimes I'm glad I live in a country that has long lost its obsessions about 'heroes'...


 

Germany? 

[Rich46yo]

Traveler walked the walk.  If memory serves, he was in a no-kidding combat unit for those years.  If he still bristles at the notion of Nam-era Guard units being equated with grunts humping in the boonies, he's certainly entitled to that opinion.

- oldman

<S> to Traveler and all the other vets who played the Lottery, without their rich and famous Daddies finding soft and cushy spots for them. I myself was at the closest air base to Tehran when those students over ran that embassy. In a combat rated unit I was in the 1/2 of the squadron assigned to go when we invaded. For days we mobilized but Carter didnt send us. In the end its all luck of the draw. Either a bullet is 1 inch to close or your in the wrong spot at the wrong time. Those who "want" to be Hero's seldom end up being one.

Unless "Daddy" gets it for you. In your cup cake unit.

[Ripsnort]

Selleck should be the next NRA president. 

[Blooz]

[Guppy35]

People consider John Wayne a hero too.  We've so overused the word it has lost its meaning.

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People consider John Wayne a hero too.  We've so overused the word it has lost its meaning.

funny you say this...was just gonna post about it and read what you said....

my thoughts and feelings....now a days basketball players and football players are called hero's and it is disgusting...they actually have commercials calling it "Hero ball" 
makes me want to puke...

very few know what the word hero means...

[Vraciu]

funny you say this...was just gonna post about it and read what you said....

my thoughts and feelings....now a days basketball players and football players are called hero's and it is disgusting...they actually have commercials calling it "Hero ball" 
makes me want to puke...

very few know what the word hero means...

"Hero ball" is a pejorative to true fans of the sport.

[RotBaron]

Traveler; I haven't heard you say, just others, so if you did serve in Vietnam, I thank you for your service.

You are more than entitled to an opinion on this subject; however you must know not all are going to agree with you and many are going to attribute the things he's done in the last 20yrs to being a hero than say Guard duty, (maybe that he didn't run off to the USSR makes him more likeable than a very well known absconder).

However; iirc ~2.5 million US servicemen/women set foot in 'Nam from '63 to '75. 59,000 KIA.
      -not 500k

anyhow      you certainly earned your entitlement to your opinion.

[Rich46yo]

Its why I have no respect for Nugent I dont care what he say's about two of my lifes loves, hunting and the shooting sports. Its why I have no respect for John Kerry and his Purple Heart shenanigans he flim-flammed to get out of service while the son's of the time clock punchers had to stay and fight.

Want to talk the talk then you'd had better of walked the walk. I have nothing against Selleck, from what I know he never used his pampered service record to brag at all "unlike Kerry". But only a fool would believe him a "Hero".

The "Hero's" come home in box's or they spend the rest of their lives walking on aluminum legs. Many have no physical injuries but are haunted for years by scar's only they can see.

[Traveler]

Traveler; I haven't heard you say, just others, so if you did serve in Vietnam, I thank you for your service.

You are more than entitled to an opinion on this subject; however you must know not all are going to agree with you and many are going to attribute the things he's done in the last 20yrs to being a hero than say Guard duty, (maybe that he didn't run off to the USSR makes him more likeable than a very well known absconder).

However; iirc ~2.5 million US servicemen/women set foot in 'Nam from '63 to '75. 59,000 KIA.
      -not 500k

anyhow      you certainly earned your entitlement to your opinion.

I never said 500K died in Viet Nam, I said 500K served, that was the number in 68  I served from Nov 67 to May 69 as a combat medic with the 5th group.

[Arlo]

Dear Cod in Hev'n. Enough already! I can dig where Trav's coming from. CelebTV made too much ado about Sellick's guard time. More than Sellick would ever have dreamed of doing. Sellick didn't do anything wrong. CelebTv sucks. Trav saw combat and deserves some respect for that (which I do). Not many in this game can probably say they walked in those shoes.

Thanks for posting the thread, Trav and 

[guncrasher]

I never said 500K died in Viet Nam, I said 500K served, that was the number in 68  I served from Nov 67 to May 69 as a combat medic with the 5th group.

traveler many times more than 1/2 a million served in vietnam.  what you are trying to say, I think, is that 1/2 a million served at any one time.


http://www.veteranshour.com/vietnam_war_statistics.htm


semp

[RotBaron]

I never said 500K died in Viet Nam, I said 500K served, that was the number in 68  I served from Nov 67 to May 69 as a combat medic with the 5th group.

Sorry what I wrote was confusing. What I meant to correct was the 500K served. Like Semp said...maybe at one time. The total count serving in Vietnam I believe was ~2.5 million US.

~ 59,000 KIA

[Muzzy]

Wow...brokering a cease-fire here was way harder than hammering out the Paris Peace Accords.

[Copprhed]

This says it all about Sellek, Bush, et al: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40JmEj0_aVM&list=PLf6-wYiizn9PjX-5EHG7CcIYYV8R6rGBQ