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...suggested Boorda had overreacted. Wrote Knox: "The military makes the trivial important and the important trivial." Retired Army Sergeant Major David L. Pompili of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was saddened by the suicide but pointed out, "If Boorda's citation did not award the V device [for valor in combat experience], he was not authorized to wear it. Careers are ruined by lying to the troops, and the good admiral knew that." But Rodolfo A. Arizala of Santiago had a more pragmatic reaction: "To the nonmilitary person, it is unthinkable that the honest mistake of wearing an unauthorized combat ribbon could...
...Prime Minister-to-be says he will respect the agreements but will give Israeli security forces "complete freedom of action" in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to combat terrorism. That would violate terms of the government-signed accords that bar Israeli forces from operating in the autonomous areas under Arafat's control, encompassing most of the Gaza Strip and six West Bank cities, unless they are in hot pursuit of a fugitive. Returning Israeli troops to areas from which they have withdrawn, even for limited operations, would set them up to clash with the 30,000 men Arafat...
...Having gone through combat, and having lost a lot of friends, I never even went to graduation," he says...
...answer, of course, is that those men who did serve in combat in Vietnam must care about it and must consider it an affront, not only to their service but to the sacrifices made in an ill-conceived war by the 57,600 Americans who died in it and the hundreds of thousands more who left arms and legs and sometimes pieces of their sanity in Vietnam. It is self-evident that no one who had not earned the decorations for valor in battle should have worn them, least of all the Navy's top officer...
Still: Should reporters pursue a story such as the one about the U.S. Chief of Naval Operations wearing combat decorations he did not earn...