08-28-2006, 19:02 PM
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Originally Posted by M21Sniper
Simply the best.
Yeah, yeah...just tell us which nazi you'd most like to blow, and we'll record your vote.
David Hackworth so dishonored himself wrt the things he said about Michael Durant that as far as i'm concerned, he barely even qualifies as an American.
This is not to say he wasn't a crack leader at some point. All i know is that now, i wouldn't spit on him were he on fire.  |
I wrote this about him in this thread:
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One of my best friends (retired Army brigadier general) knew him in Vietnam. He didn't have a high opinion of him ("shameless self-promoter"), but acknowledged that his troops DID love him.
I felt he was an egomaniac that believed he was never wrong, and just really loved the role of contrarian and iconoclast a bit too much. He liked to paint a picture of himself that always glorified his exploits, and he made sure that IN HINDSIGHT, he had been right all along, but the idiots just wouldn't listen to him. And if they wouldn't listen to him, they were automatically idiots.
But there is no doubt that he was a natural combat leader that knew how to balance his mission with his unit's welfare. He loved soldiers and the Army, and had the integrity to throw away a career to tell the Army what it needed to hear, but was unwilling to believe about itself. THAT is something I can respect.
A complex and valuable man with some large flaws, he was a human allegory of America itself.
RIP, Colonel. Call the roll.
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