Like most of you, I receive periodic political e-mails from family with various right-wing or religious themes to them. I usually just ignore them, but a recent e-mail sent to me by my cousin made me curious, so I decided to do a little research. As a combat veteran, I take it a little personal when the right-wing uses the troops as a bludgeon to attack President Obama.
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So here is the e-mail I received from my cousin:
From: lfuller@**.com
To: lfuller@**.com
Subject: The Third Row?
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 08:51:38 -0500
Please watch the attached video. It is very thought provoking.
I came to tears, and if I had Obama's email -I'd forward to him and ask for an explanation....
Linda
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Think about this. The Third Row?
Click on:
http://www.youtube.com/...
The video is a right-wing radio host complaining about President Obama disrespecting the troops at the Medal of Honor ceremony for SSG Salvatore Giunta by placing military members and families in the third row behind members of Congress in the first two rows.
Hmmmmm...this doesn't sound like the President Obama that I know. The President who showed respect to dead soldiers by greeting the returning caskets, unlike the previous President, and has visited so many wounded soldiers in the hospitals. So I decided to do a little research, knowing that in many cases these type of e-mails can be easily refuted.
This is my response to my cousin with what I found:
Ok...after doing some investigation, this is what I have found out.
This guy is full of shit...
Every photo that I've been able to find of the Medal of Honor ceremony has been similar to this one:
http://nimg.sulekha.com/...
If you notice, SSG Giunta is on the stage with president Obama, and to the right are soldiers in the third row, but why are the soldiers relegated to the third row?
The following photo gives a better picture of who these guys in the first two rows are:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/...
Do you notice what these guys have around their necks?
That's right...these are all previous MEDAL OF HONOR RECEIPIENTS. I think they deserve to be in the first two rows, don't you?
So, as I anticipated...this guy is full of shit and just wants to make President Obama look bad.
Feel free to share this with cousin Karen if you feel like it. She shouldn't believe everything she reads on the internet, and neither should you.
Honestly, this took no more than an hour of my time to debunk completely, and I still am able to live my life.
Are there any other right-wing e-mails floating around that we should be debunking?