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Army to award Purple Heart to Fort Hood victims

Jim_S

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It's about time -

Army to award Purple Heart to Fort Hood victims

The U.S. Army has decided to award the Purple Heart to victims of the Fort Hood massacre, sources told Fox News on Friday.

Three sources confirmed the decision, to be announced by next week. Victims of the 2009 shooting and their families have been pressing the military to award the Purple Heart, and the benefits that come with it, for years.

They got a boost when Congress passed recent funding legislation requiring the Defense Department to reconsider whether the victims qualify for the honor. At the time, a lawyer for victims of the shooting and their families told Fox News that some victims are still so damaged physically and mentally they are unable to work five years after the massacre -- and the benefits that come with the Purple Heart would be a lifeline.

"No one will be the same," attorney Neal Sher told Fox News last month.

Fox News was first to report that the massacre -- in which 13 were killed and more than 30 wounded when former Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan opened fire after shouting "Allahu Akbar" -- was classified as "workplace violence."

Further evidence has steadily emerged since the attack that Hasan was motivated by his extreme religious views and by the radical American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who, at the time, was a leader of Al Qaeda in Yemen. After his August 2013 conviction, Hasan told his lawyer, John Galligan, to release letters to Fox News in which Hasan pledged his allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, and also wrote to Pope Francis about the virtues of Islam.

Sher told Fox News in January that there was stiff resistance to the new congressional language requiring a review of Purple Heart consideration. "The administration and the Pentagon," Sher explained, "they lobbied hard against it. But we worked very hard and we were successful in garnering bi-partisan support for this."

Fox News' Lucas Tomlinson and Catherine Herridge contributed to this report.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/02/06/army-to-award-purple-heart-to-fort-hood-victims/
 
tiredretired

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They deserve it. Workplace violence my butt. These guys were casualties of war. Pure and simple. OBlamo not wanting to admit that changes nothing.
 
Kane

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In calling this terrorism "workplace violence", Hussein denied all of the victims the government benefits that accompany the Purple Heart. In the Army finally calling terrorism TERRORISM ...

Victims of the 2009 shooting and their families have been pressing the military to award the Purple Heart, and the benefits that come with it, for years
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... the victims of this cowardly Muslim terrorist will receive the life-long benefits they deserve.



POS president.
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Tractors4u

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It's about time. I have a friend that I was in the National Guard with that was shot at Ft Hood that day. LTC (R) Randy Royer. I first met Randy in 1991 when we started officer candidate school together. Many years later we ended up in the same unit. I was to go to Afghanistan and was processing through Ft Hood. Randy was denied the privilege of going over seas to serve and has since medically retired from the National Guard. The tattoo is his. The 14 stars represent the 14 killed at Ft Hood that day.
 

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Kane

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Not to high jack the thread, but it's refreshing to see Bush43 and two favorite girls visiting our wounded warriors. Do you think Barack Hussein Obama has ever been caught doing that?
 
Danang Sailor

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Criteria for the award of the Purple Heart decoration as it applies here:
"After 28 March 1973, as a result of an international terrorist attack against the United States or a foreign nation friendly to the
United States, recognized as such an attack by the Secretary of the Army ..."

If you believe Nidal's attack was motivated by his adherence to the ideals of Islamic Supremacism - and his own words
verify this is the case - there can be no doubt that the attack qualifies as "an international terrorist attack" which meets the
criteria noted above. Calling it "workplace violence" was nothing more than a failed attempt to obfuscate the truth.


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Notice which President showed up to visit Nidal's victims.




Edit: Sorry Kane, I didn't notice your post until after mine was revised.
 
tiredretired

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Kane said:
Not to high jack the thread, but it's refreshing to see Bush43 and two favorite girls visiting our wounded warriors. Do you think Barack Hussein Obama has ever been caught doing that?
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No, to the best of my knowledge, he has never been man enough to visit our GI's. He also did not call Chris Kyle's wife ever to offer any condolences and to the best of my knowledge no one associated with this corrupt administration even showed up to offer any either.

He could not care less for the military or for the men and women who serve. He only offers phony lip service when it is politically advantageous to do so.

Say what you want about Bush 43, but he and Barbara are a thousand times better human beings then those two currently polluting the White House.

My opinion only and worth strictly what you paid for it. :biggrin:
 
road squawker

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Danang Sailor said:
Criteria for the award of the Purple Heart decoration as it applies here:
"After 28 March 1973, as a result of an international terrorist attack against the United States or a foreign nation friendly to the
United States, recognized as such an attack by the Secretary of the Army ..."

... Calling it "workplace violence" was nothing more than a failed attempt to obfuscate the truth.
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exactly correct, in fact,....... the injury MUST be due to a combat wound.
Eligibility criteria for the Purple Heart Medal is as follows:

a. The Purple Heart is awarded in the name of the President of the United States to any member of an Armed Force or any civilian national of the United States who, while serving under competent authority in any capacity with one of the U.S. Armed Services after 5 April 1917, has been wounded or killed, or who has died or may hereafter die after being wounded

(1) In any action against an enemy of the United States.

(2) In any action with an opposing armed force of a foreign country in which the Armed Forces of the United States are or have been engaged.

(3) While serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict against an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party.

(4) As a result of an act of any such enemy of opposing armed forces.

(5) As the result of an act of any hostile foreign force.

(6) After 28 March 1973, as a result of an international terrorist attack against the United States or a foreign nation friendly to the United States, recognized as such an attack by the Secretary of the Army, or jointly by the Secretaries of the separate armed Services concerned if persons from more than one service are wounded in the attack.

(7) After 28 March 1973, as a result of military operations while serving outside the territory of the United States as part of a peacekeeping force.

b. While clearly an individual decoration, the Purple Heart differs from all other decorations in that an individual is not "recommended" for the decoration; rather he or she is entitled to it upon meeting specific criteria.

(1) A Purple Heart is authorized for the first wound suffered under conditions indicated above, but for each subsequent award an Oak Leaf Cluster will be awarded to be worn on the medal or ribbon. Not more than one award will be made for more than one wound or injury received at the same instant or from the same missile, force, explosion, or agent.

(2) A wound is defined as an injury to any part of the body from an outside force or agent sustained under one or more of the conditions listed above. A physical lesion is not required, however, the wound for which the award is made must have required treatment by a medical officer and records of medical treatment for wounds or injuries received in action must have been made a matter of official record.

(3) When contemplating an award of this decoration, the key issue that commanders must take into consideration is the degree to which the enemy caused the injury. The fact that the proposed recipient was participating in direct or indirect combat operations is a necessary prerequisite, but is not sole justification for award.
 
Leni

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Kane said:
Not to high jack the thread, but it's refreshing to see Bush43 and two favorite girls visiting our wounded warriors. Do you think Barack Hussein Obama has ever been caught doing that?
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HELL NO!
 
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