Vance has gone out if his way to convey that he did not serve in combat, starting with his book, before he entered politics & several times since. Walz has not.a fan wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2024 10:40 amYeah, did you notice that Vance has pulled this cr*p, Dmac? In his video where he went after Walz, he claimed to have taken the call as a Marine in Iraq, and intentionally left out that he wasn't in combat?old salt wrote: ↑Fri Aug 16, 2024 11:06 pmBZ Dmac. Well said. Keep calling out the posers & imposters.DMac wrote: ↑Fri Aug 16, 2024 7:50 am I've watched this for many, many years with Vietnam Veteran hat wearers. I know that they (most of them) think that most people are going to think that they're real bad aszez who experienced the likes of Hamburger Hill combat and were lucky to survive because of that hat. A lot of them like to play on people's ignorance...they aint gonna bullschidt me though and they know it a couple of minutes into a conversation (and yes, I will engage with damn near every one of them I see). A couple of years back an old timer pulled up to the grocery store with his MARINES bumper sticker on his car. When he got out I said, uh oh, hide the women and children, the Marines are in town! Turns out he was sniper who did two tours in Vietnam and said he loved it. He was unquestionably the real deal, had a real nice chat with the guy. Sometimes you do run into the guys who actually did do what the ignorant assume all do.
When asked if I served "during Vietnam", I could truthfully reply that I served "during the Vietnam era".
Instead, I reply == "I served while we were at war in Vietnam. I was in the training pipeline to go, but the unit I was headed for began shutting down before I began that training, so I did not serve in the war zone".
I don't wear a Vietnam Veteran ball cap....even though I had to complete SERE school before my first deployment.
This story may not be of interest to some here, but it's of interest to me that Vance is holding himself up to voters as a war hero while he attacks Vance's service. Vance knows perfectly well that folks aren't going to do the research to find out he wasn't in combat.....so he just implies he was fighting in Iraq and lets voters fill in the blanks.
All for political gain. Shame on him.
Have you seen any clips where an interviewer mistakenly misstated Vance's service & he did not correct it ? Walz just nodded in agreement.
Walz is a gifted politician & a master communicator. He knows how to refer to his service in ways that do not leave misperceptions.
He has neglected to so so, Vance has not. Walz's artful omissions would not have stood under Dmac's parking lot interrogation.