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Bush Marks Veterans Day in Texas

Article Abstract by: Hotdrixz046    

Original Author: DEB RIECHMANN Associated Press Writers
It seems as if the opinions are running against our leaders who have not
faced combat as some have yet we have an election
up an coming full of
such replacements. Here is what ones husband did not so long ago. We had
better unite or we will be facing much worse time ahead! Among the
phonies posted on the POW Network''s Web site is Ronald Patrick Murphy,
who appeared at a 1992 campaign stop for then-Democratic presidential
candidate Bill Clinton at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.Claiming
to be an ex-POW who was held captive for 27 days in 1972, Murphy, then
a Nevadan, drew a teary reaction from Clinton when he gave him his
Vietnam service medal during what appeared to be a staged encounter,
according to Review-Journal news accounts at the time."He hugged me and
it was like being hugged by a linebacker," Murphy told the newspaper in
a December 1992 interview. "I told him, ''I would much rather have your
name on the presidential ballot than the Vietnam wall.''"Murphy''s
veterans disability compensation also was increased after the Clinton
visit.But when "Stolen Valor" was published about six years later,
Murphy was exposed as never being a former prisoner of war, wounded in
combat or involved in Army intelligence as he had claimed. Instead,
during his two tours in Vietnam he was a data processing repairman,
according to the book, which cites records obtained from the National
Personnel Records Center from a Freedom of Information Act request by
ABC News.
Published: November 12, 2007
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