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Xipe Totec's JournalVet Raises Money To Help Donald Trump Earn His Own Purple Heart
“Chip in to fly him to the conflict zone of his choosing,” says Cameron Kerr, who got his medal after losing a leg.
WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump was thrilled last week when a veteran at a Virginia rally gave him his Purple Heart. “I’ve always wanted to get a Purple Heart,” he said, dangling the medal typically awarded to soldiers wounded or killed while serving in battle. “This was much easier.”
That response didn’t sit right with Cameron Kerr, a Purple Heart recipient based in Virginia. As an Army veteran who lost his leg on the battleground in Afghanistan, Kerr was stunned to see Trump treating the prestigious award like a flashy new toy. He figured if Trump has really always wanted a Purple Heart, he should have to earn it “the old-fashioned way”: by going into a war zone.
So he’s raising money to help give Trump that chance.
“As with seemingly everything else in his life, Mr. Trump got [a Purple Heart] handed to him instead of earning it,” Kerr states on a GoFundMe page he launched Tuesday with the headline “Help Trump Get A Purple Heart.”
“I fully endorse his desire to earn one and would happily oblige his interest in doing so, by being one of the first to chip in to fly him to the conflict zone of his choosing,” Kerr wrote. “After all, you’re never too old to follow your dreams.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-purple-heart_us_57a4cc5ae4b03ba6801239b8
Yesterday, Aug 1, was the 50th Anniversary of the UT Massacre
Charles Joseph Whitman (June 24, 1941 – August 1, 1966) was an American engineering student at the University of Texas and mass murderer who shot 49 people, killing 16.
In the early morning hours of August 1, 1966, Whitman murdered his wife and his mother in their homes. Later that day, he brought a number of guns, including rifles, a shotgun, and handguns, to the campus of the University of Texas at Austin where, over an approximate 90- to 95-minute period, he killed 14 people and wounded 32 others in a mass shooting in and around the Tower. Whitman shot and killed three people inside the university's tower and eleven others after firing at random from the 28th-floor observation deck of the Main Building. Whitman was eventually shot and killed by Austin police officer Houston McCoy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman
On that day, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) sought to dismiss what he called a "frivolous" preliminary injunction requested by three faculty members at the University of Texas who want the ability to make their classrooms gun-free zones now that concealed carry is allowed at public universities.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ken-paxton-campus-carry
Look Around, and name the 5 books closest to you
Damn, we were good once.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x4539707
Show me we still are.
So, alcoholic baby brother escapes from rehab, calls your 92 Yo mother. Now what?
Wants her to look after him.
What would you do?
Nothing funnier than being on a plane piloted by captain Gary Larson
Yes, on a flight yesterday, the flight attendant announced that our captain was named Gary Larson.
I nearly fell out of the seat laughing.
Watching the Convention on CNN. The Repub convention logo...
Looks almost like the flag of the Republic of the Rio Grande
With the white and black inverted.
Accident?
Rise of Day - A Day to Remember
California Mexicans vs. Texas Mexicans
This had me in stitches!
Where are you from?
Texas
But before you came here?
Texas
No, I mean when you were part of Mexico?
Texas.
Never abuse power humiliating those around you
Because power fades,
but memory persists.
- Benito Juarez
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