We'll miss you, Hack. RIP.

[LynnTheDem]

You had your "fun" side ...only the US military didn't think your fun was so funny in 'Nam, LOL! But the soldiers appreciated it. ;)

You loved your men and you took care of them. Always. And they loved you. We soldiers' spouses loved you, too.

Thanks, Hack.

Col. David Hackworth (ret), America's most highly decorated soldier:

"Should the president decide to stay the war course, hopefully at least a few of our serving top-uniformed leaders - those who are now covertly leaking that war with Iraq will be an unparalleled disaster -will do what many Vietnam-era generals wish they would have done: stand tall and publicly tell the America people the truth about another bad war that could well lead to another died-in-vain black wall. Or even worse."

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29786

[lebkuchen]

1. You told it like it is.

Rummy is, indeed, an asshole.

[DanCa]

2. I just saw this on cnn

He will be missed.

[Jacobin]

3. He died?

I need to get out more.

[anarchy1999]

4. Dear Hack, thank you. We miss you right this minute. I'm so sorry,

RIP. You are loved by many and will be so missed.

[Clark2008]

5. Cheers to the man who loved our troops

Who fought for them with reasoned abandon.
Who told the truth to anyone who would listen.
Who was kind enough to write his fans.
Who was tough enough to challenge BushCo.
Who was open-minded enough to change his mind and was strong enough to admit it.

Love you, Hack.

:toast: :loveya: :patriot: :cry:

[LynnTheDem]

7. I'm remembering all the crazy (fun-crazy) shit he did.

Hope people remember that he was FUN and a whole lot of a "wild and crazy kinda guy", and not just the "4 tours of 'Nam highly decorated" guy.

:toast:

[Clark2008]

8. He was one of the best, really.

Great sense of humor.

I love those "teddy bear" military types. You know, you think they're gruff, but they're actually just a big pile of cookie dough with a side of some stiff scotch. :)

[LynnTheDem]

10. Uh huh...altho get on his wrong side and you'd feel the pain.

So many stories running through my mind...most of which can't be told in mixed company, rotfl!

[Clark2008]

11. That was the "stiff scotch" part.

;)

[LynnTheDem]

15. To Hack...

:toast:

[recovering democrat]

6. Prayers and condolences

Our prayers and condolences in the loss of a true American hero. His courage, honesty and love for the American solder are remembered and honored.

Rest in peace, Colonel Hackworth. You will not be forgotten by this family!

[kentuck]

9. Hack was a good guy....

He was on our side at the end...

[Vinca]

12. The world has lost an honest man. nt

[nonconformist]

13. RIP Hack

:(

[Clark2008]

14. Tribute up now at his site

Col. David. H. Hackworth, 1930-2005
Legendary U.S. Army Guerrilla Fighter,
Champion of the Ordinary Soldier

Washington, D.C., May 5, 2005 – Col. David H. Hackworth, the United States Army's legendary, highly decorated guerrilla fighter and lifelong champion of the doughboy and dogface, ground-pounder and grunt, died Wednesday in Mexico. He was 74 years old. The cause of death was a form of cancer now appearing with increasing frequency among Vietnam veterans exposed to the defoliants called Agents Orange and Blue.

Col. Hackworth spent more than half a century on the country’s hottest battlefields, first as a soldier, then as a writer, war correspondent and sharp-eyed critic of the Military-Industrial Complex and ticket-punching generals he dismissed as “Perfumed Princes.”

SNIP

He was a regular guest on national radio and TV shows and a regular contributor to magazines including People, Parade, Men’s Journal, Self, Playboy, Maxim and Modern Maturity. His column, “Defending America,” has appeared weekly in newspapers across the country and on the website of Soldiers For The Truth, a rallying point for military reform. He and Ms. England have been the driving force behind the organization, which defends the interests of ordinary soldiers while upholding Hack’s conviction that “nuke-the-pukes” solutions no longer work in an age of terror that demands “a streamlined, hard-hitting force for the twenty-first century.”

“Hack never lost his focus,” said Roger Charles, president of Soldiers for the Truth. “That focus was on the young kids that our country sends to bleed and die on our behalf. Everything he did in his retirement was to try to give them a better chance to win and to come home. That’s one hell of a legacy.”

http://www.hackworth.com/

[Bombtrack]

16. Didn't he interview General Clark for Maxim magazine?

Somebody should find that interview.