Known as America's most decorated living soldier ......

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from The Seattle Times.
Sunday, May 08, 2005, 12:00 A.M. Pacific

Maverick David Hackworth, 74, dies

By Dennis McLellan
Los Angeles Times


Retired Army Col. David Hackworth, 74, the highly decorated infantry officer who denounced U.S. policy in Vietnam during the war and later became an outspoken journalist who offered trenchant analyses of the military, has died.Col. Hackworth, who lived in Greenwich, Conn., died Wednesday in Tijuana, Mexico, where he was undergoing treatment for bladder cancer. Eilhys England, his wife of eight years, was at his side.

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He returned to the United States more than a decade ago and assumed a new role as a journalist: He became a contributing editor at Newsweek, a syndicated columnist and a fixture on television talk shows. A persistent thorn in the side of the Pentagon, Col. Hackworth in 2002 called Afghanistan a Vietnam-like disaster in the making, and last year he told Salon.com that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld "misunderstood the whole war" in Iraq and predicted that American troops could be stuck there for "at least" another 30 years.

"Most combat vets pick their fights carefully. They look at their scars, remember the madness and are always mindful of the fallout," Col. Hackworth, who still carried a bullet in his leg from Vietnam, wrote in February. "That's not the case in Washington, where the White House and the Pentagon are run by civilians who have never sweated it out on a battlefield."

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<link> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002267186_hackworthobit08.html

[Parche]

1. most decorated

I thought that Ret.Rear Admiral Eugene Fluckey was the most decorated
still living
1Medal of Honor
4Navy Crosses
etc....

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2. Col. David Hackworth was awarded 78 medals which he

...gave back to the army in 1971 following his protests over Vietnam. Perhaps the article meant up to that point of his service.

[Pinboy]

3. Or . . .

It may be a matter of "most decorated" vs. "most highly decorated."

Or it could be recognition that Hack certainly was colorful . . .

[CTyankee]

4. huh, so John Kerry wasn't the only one

isn't that interesting. Where were the swift boat liars on this one? Good God, what was going on during the campaign. Couldn't Hacksorth manage a word or two on behalf of Kerry?