Praise for the SEALS from Obama isn't worth the air he breathed while offering the false sentiments. There not a person alive that can convince me that Obama didn't murder the SEAL team members following the OBL raid when the helo was shot down.
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Praise for the SEALS from Obama isn't worth the air he breathed while offering the false sentiments. There not a person alive that can convince me that Obama didn't murder the SEAL team members following the OBL raid when the helo was shot down.
No Medal of Honor for San Diego Marine killed in Iraq
December 12, 2012 | 10:10 am
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The secretary of Defense has decided not to overrule his predecessor and posthumously award the Medal of Honor to Marine Sgt. Rafael Peralta of San Diego, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Alpine) announced Wednesday.
The decision by Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta means the Navy Cross awarded to Peralta for heroism during the 2004 battle in Fallouja, Iraq, will not be upgraded to the nation's highest award for combat courage.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6...2825970d-300wiHunter had petitioned Panetta to overturn the decision made by then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates in 2008. Gates ruled that conflicting evidence makes it inappropriate to award the Medal of Honor.
Peralta, 25, an immigrant from Mexico, was killed during house-to-house fighting in November 2004.
Marines who were with Peralta during the battle swore that, although mortally wounded, he reached out to smother a grenade with his body, saving the lives of several Marines. But a pathologist report concluded Peralta was already brain dead from friendly fire and thus any actions were not done intentionally.
Hunter, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan as a Marine officer, petitioned Panetta to upgrade the Navy Cross based on a recently released documentary film that seems to undermine the pathologist's conclusion about how Peralta died. The film showed no injury consistent with a grenade explosion next to Peralta's body, Hunter said.
Hunter said he was informed of Panetta's decision by Jeh Johnson, general counsel of the Department of Defense. Hunter called Panetta's decision "disappointing" and said he believes the new evidence "clearly invalidates Secretary Gates' conclusion that the grenade detonated 1 to 3 feet from Peralta's left leg."
The Marine Corps and Navy Secretary Ray Mabus have consistently requested that Peralta be awarded the Medal of Honor. The Medal of Honor, Hunter said, is "the only award that Sgt. Peralta deserves."
The Peralta family was notified Wednesday morning, Hunter said.
I love how a pathologist who wasn't there feels qualified to overrule eyewitnesses who were saved by the brave Marine's action. And why am I not surprised that limp-dicks like Gates and Panetta would go along with it. Bullshit...
Semper Fi Sgt. Peralta.
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As far as I am concerned... anyone who joins the Marine Corps, makes it through basic training and then goes on to a combat mission of ANY fucking sort is a hero.
In fact, I don't give a shit what service you're in.
When you face down an enemy, or you die trying, you're a hero.
Semper Fi Marine.
Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer recovering after fight
Published December 13, 2012
Associated Press
COLUMBIA, Ky. – Kentucky State Police have arrested a Columbia teenager in an alleged assault on Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer.
The Lexington Herald-Leader reported Meyer was involved in the altercation over the weekend at a venue near Columbia.
WYMT-TV reports Meyer was injured badly enough that he was treated at a local hospital and released.
Police said Thursday they arrested 18-year-old Kanissa'a Thompson and charged him with second-degree assault.
Meyer was awarded the Medal of Honor last year for his actions in Afghanistan. He is credited with saving 13 American and 23 Afghan soldiers' lives in a grueling 2009 firefight.
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Hero Of COP Keating Battle To Receive Medal of Honor
January 11, 2013
A former staff sergeant who helped repel one of the largest, most vicious battles against U.S. forces in Afghanistan will receive the Medal of Honor, the White House announced Friday.
Clinton L. Romesha, 31, will be the fourth living service member to receive the nation’s highest award for valor for actions in Afghanistan or Iraq. Seven other service members have posthumously been awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions in those wars.
Romesha will be awarded the medal Feb. 11 at the White House.
Romesha was a section leader in B Troop, 3rd Squadron, 61st Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division during the Oct. 3, 2009, attack on Combat Outpost Keating in eastern Afghanistan.
Eight American soldiers were killed and two dozen others wounded in the battle as the troop-sized element fought against an overwhelming enemy force that launched a brazen attack to overrun the COP.
The attack on COP Keating remains one of the deadliest attacks against coalition forces in Afghanistan and is chronicled in the book “The Outpost” by Jake Tapper.
Several other soldiers at COP Keating that day have been honored for their actions. According to Army Times’ reporting and “The Outpost,” at least nine soldiers — including the platoon leader who ran operations that day and the physician assistant who treated numerous casualties and gave his own blood to keep one of his patients alive — were awarded the Silver Star, the nation’s third highest award for valor.
In “The Outpost,” Tapper outlines Romesha’s unwavering courage and determination as the vastly outnumbered American troops and their Latvian partners battled an enemy force numbering more than 300.
Romesha is described as intense, short and wiry.
“The son of a leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Church in Cedarville, California … his parents had hoped he would follow his father into the church leadership, and Romesha had in fact gone to seminary for four years during high school — from five till seven every morning — but ultimately it just wasn’t for him. He didn’t even go on a mission, a regular rite for young Mormon men. Romesha was better suited to this kind of mission, with guns and joes under his command.”
At 5:58 a.m. Oct. 3, 2009, the enemy launched its attack from all four sides of the small COP, which was nestled in the bottom of a valley surrounded by towering mountains.
About 50 American, 20 Afghan and two Latvian soldiers were stationed at COP Keating, along with about a dozen Afghan Security Guards. Nearby, the 19 American and 10 Afghan soldiers at Observation Post Fritsche also came under heavy fire.
Firing a recoilless rifle, rocket-propelled grenades, mortars, machine guns and rifles, the enemy quickly wreaked havoc on the two positions.
In two minutes, the first U.S. soldier was killed as the enemy targeted the COP’s mortar pit and pinned down the soldiers at OP Fritsche, preventing them from providing supporting fire to COP Keating.
The Afghan troops and security guards reportedly quickly abandoned their posts, leaving the Americans and Latvians to fight alone.
During the first three hours of the battle, mortars hit the COP and OP every 15 seconds, and in less than an hour, the enemy swarmed the COP, breaching the Afghan army side of the compound. The enemy eventually set fire to the small outpost, destroying almost 70 percent of it.
Romesha and his fellow soldiers immediately fought back — and continued to fight for hours — as heavy enemy fire rained down on them from all directions.
According to the citation accompanying Romesha’s Medal of Honor, the staff sergeant moved under intense enemy fire to reconnoiter the battlefield and seek reinforcements from the barracks before returning to action with the support of an assistant gunner, who is identified in “The Outpost” as Cpl. Justin Gregory.
Romesha “took out an enemy machine gun team and, while engaging a second, the generator he was using for cover was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade, inflicting him with shrapnel wounds,” according to the citation.
Undeterred by his injuries, Romesha continued to fight, and upon the arrival of another soldier to aid him and with the assistant gunner, Romesha again “rushed through the exposed avenue to assemble additional soldiers.”
Romesha then mobilized and led a five-man team and returned to the fight.
“With complete disregard for his own safety, Romesha continually exposed himself to heavy enemy fire as he moved confidently about the battlefield, engaging and destroying multiple enemy targets, including three Taliban fighters who had breached the combat outpost’s perimeter,” according to the citation.
As the enemy attacked the COP with even “greater ferocity, unleashing a barrage of rocket-propelled grenades and recoilless rifle rounds,” Romesha “identified the point of attack and directed air support to destroy over 30 enemy fighters.”
When he learned that other soldiers at a distant battle position were still alive, Romesha and his team provided covering fire, allowing three of their wounded comrades to reach the aid station, according to the citation.
Romesha and his team also moved 100 meters under “withering fire” to recover the bodies of their fallen comrades.
Romesha’s calm — and sense of humor — under fire is described in “The Outpost.”
During the battle, Romesha tries to rally Spc. Zach Koppes, who was pinned down in a Humvee.
As recounted in “The Outpost”:
Romesha ran up to the vehicle under enemy fire.
“This doesn’t look good,” Romesha said. “We’re all going to die.”
He laughed — he had a pretty dark sense of humor, Romesha. “You okay?”
Koppes looked at him. Bullets were ricocheting off the truck right next to him, but the staff sergeant just stood there looking back at Koppes, smiling the whole time.
Holy shit, he’s lost his mind, the specialist thought.
“Yeah, I’m good,” Koppes finally replied. “I still got this sniper behind me.”
“Okay, stay low and hang tight,” Romesha told him.
At that moment, the sniper shot at Romesha, who then ducked behind the Humvee and began playing peekaboo with the enemy, trying to draw him out so he could see exactly where he was firing from. He decided that the Taliban fighter was midway up on the Northface, so he fired the Dragunov [rifle] at the spot.
Then he turned and airily announced to Koppes, “All right, I’m going to head out.”
Romesha’s actions “throughout the day-long battle were critical in suppressing an enemy that had far greater numbers,” according to the citation accompanying his award. “His extraordinary efforts gave Bravo Troop the opportunity to regroup, reorganize and prepare for the counter-attack that allowed the troop to account for its personnel and secure Combat Outpost Keating.”
After the battle, COP Keating, which had been slated for months to close but had remained open because of continual delays, was shut down and destroyed.
Romesha, of Lake City, Calif., is married and has three children. He enlisted in the Army in September 1999 as an M1 armor crewman, and deployed to Kosovo and twice to Iraq before serving in Afghanistan.
Romesha left the Army in April 2011 and currently lives with his family in Minot, N.D., where he works as a field safety specialist for an oil field construction firm.
In addition to the Medal of Honor, Romesha’s awards and decorations include the Bronze Star, Purple Heart and Combat Action Badge.
Chris Kyle http://www.transasianaxis.com/image/...PyJQQR8h//2Q==
Christopher Scott "Chris" Kyle was a United States Navy SEAL and the most lethal sniper in American military history, with 160 confirmed kills, although these statistics have not been released by the Pentagon. Wikipedia
Born: April 8, 1974, Odessa
Died: February 2, 2013, Glen Rose
Spouse: Taya Kyle
Books: American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
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Dog Who Served Four Tours Of Duty Laid To Rest
May 29, 2013
An area K-9 was laid to rest Wednesday, after serving four tours of duty in the Middle East.
Freddie, a bomb-sniffing golden retriever from Galva, Illinois cleared the way for hundreds of soldiers in Afghanistan.
“He’d be the lead dog, he’d walk in front of me to make sure other soldiers were safe,” said Ryan Anderson of Galva, Freddie’s dog handler, hours before putting his best friend and comrade to sleep.
“It’s a day I’ve known that has always been coming for awhile. He’s been getting worse and worse. We went to the vet last week and I couldn’t do it. But I’m going back to the vet today. He’s in a lot of pain. I’m going to have him cremated, and get him a veteran’s urn,” Anderson said, holding back his tears.
Freddie was nearly 14 years old. A former show-dog in England, he served three tours of duty under the British Army, the fourth with the United States, when he teamed up with Anderson in 2009 for a deployment to Afghanistan.
“Many times in Afghanistan, it was just me and him, sleeping on a cot. Him keeping me warm. We slept in the same sleeping bag a lot of times. He’s always had my back, He’s my best friend, we toured together for 365 days,” said Anderson.
Freddie, at the time, was a bit old for the battlefield, at nine years old, but he didn’t show it.
“He had a drive that would surpass the four and five year old dogs. He wouldn’t quit,” Anderson said.
But arthritis took its toll, and when the canine retired, Anderson soon followed and adopted Freddie in 2010.
“I knew I was gonna take him home, no matter what I had to do,” he said.
His 8 and 11 year old daughters considered Freddie family and bravely said goodbye.
“He’s like a brother. And he served his country just like my dad,” said Tara Anderson. “He’s a soldier.”
There is no Veteran’s Assistance for dogs, adoptive families incur the costs of care and vet bills. Freddie, Anderson says, suffered from PTSD, he knows it.
“He had nightmares, like normal soldiers,” Anderson said.
Headed to the vets office late Wednesday afternoon, the human and the canine soldier had each others backs, until the end.
“Fellow soldier. Friend. Companion. He’ll never be replaced. I know that,” Anderson said. “As far as I’m concerned, he’s a vet. They’re all vets,” he said.
Goodbye, Partner: The Moment Police Dog Paid Final Respects To His Handler Who Was Gunned Down In Brutal Pre-Planned Ambush
June 2, 2013
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Heartbreaking: K9 officer Figo placed a paw on the casket of his fallen partner Jason Ellis Thursday. Ellis, a Bardstown, Kentucky police officer was killed in the line of duty after, police say, he was ambushed on a highway ramp
The canine sidekick of a police officer shot to death in the line of duty gave a heart wrenching goodbye to his fallen partner Thursday, standing vigil at the funeral just before the casket was lowered into the ground.
It was a deeply emotional funeral for Bardstown, Kentucky police officer Jason Ellis, 33, who was murdered on a highway exit ramp May 25 in what police believe was a planned setup to lure the officer from the safety of his car.
His canine partner, Figo, stood beside his casket at Highview Cemetery in Chaplin, Kentucky and a touching photo shows the dog placing a loving paw on Ellis casket, as if giving his last goodbye.
Figo has been retired and given to Ellis’ widow, Amy, and his two sons, ages 6 and 7.
Last week, Amy spoke of the agony of sharing the news of his death with her two sons, who idolized their father.
'He wanted to make sure everybody was having a good time around him. He was a dedicated family man. He loved our boys. He loved me,' she said.
'I've laid on the bathroom floor. I did not want to live another second without him. I don't have the strength to pray right now, but I know that many others are praying for me and our family.
'Now I know I have to be strong for our kids.'
At Thursday's funeral, Police Chief Rick McCubbin said Ellis ‘paid the ultimate sacrifice doing what he loved, being a police officer.’ He called Ellis and Figo ‘true partners.’
The former minor league baseball player turned lawman was hit with multiple shotgun blasts early Saturday after he got out his cruiser to pick up debris at a ramp off the Bluegrass Parkway in Nelson County, according to Kentucky State Police. The investigation is continuing.
Hundreds of police officers from Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana, emergency workers and others attended services for Ellis, a K-9 officer who was on the drug task force.
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Targeted: Husband and father of two, Ellis, 33, was a minor league baseball player turned drug enforcement officer. He was killed with multiple gunshot blasts May 25 after what police say was a planned ambush
‘Heaven is a real place. Jason is there,’ said the Rev. Brent Snook of First Baptist Church of Glen Este, in Batavia, Ohio, who had been Ellis’ childhood pastor.
Ellis’ flag-draped coffin was pulled on a caisson by one white horse. It was accompanied by five officers on horseback and one officer leading a riderless horse. A bagpipe and drummer played.
At the end of the burial service, two helicopters flew overhead and the bagpipe player played ‘Amazing Grace.’
At the morning service at Parkway Baptist Church in Bardstown, McCubbin told mourners Ellis was a fun-loving jokester who dressed as an elf at a town Christmas party, and he was proud of his work taking drugs off the streets with Figo.
Ellis was ‘gunned down in a senseless act of cowardice and you just want to cry out, ‘Why?’ Snook said at the funeral service.
Later, as the funeral procession inched slowly toward the cemetery 18 miles away, young and old stood on the roadside in this town of 12,000 and watched. Factories, office buildings and offices emptied as people lined the streets, many clutching American flags or holding their hands on their hearts.
Others held signs thanking Ellis for his service. A giant American flag hung between two fire-truck ladders in front of the police department. Outside the courthouse stood three judges in black robes.
Outside the police station in Bardstown, about 40 miles southeast of Louisville, a makeshift memorial featuring flags, candles, flowers and baseballs sat in front of a police cruiser signed with messages.
One message read: ‘I love you. Mom.’
Officials on Thursday announced that a reward fund in the case has surpassed $100,000.
Ellis had been a standout baseball player at the University of the Cumberlands, and he went on to play minor league ball in the Cincinnati Reds system from 2002 to 2005.
Wow. Dogs are smart.
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It was Grathwohl who awakened America to the inherent dangers of Barack Obama in the run up to the 2008 presidential election
American Hero Larry Grathwohl DeadTweet 6
| (4) Comments | Subscribe | Back to full Article | Contact UsBy Judi McLeod Friday, July 19, 2013
http://cfp.canadafreepress.com/Larry.jpg“We have just learned that Larry Grathwohl was found dead in his Cincinnati apartment,” colleague Doug Hagmann wrote in an email to Canada Free Press (CFP) this evening.
“Many of us are in shock tonight,” Tina Trent wrote in her blog.
The lifelong courage of Larry Grathwohl brought him legions of fans, many of whom will be heartbroken upon hearing this news.
It was Grathwohl who awakened America to the inherent dangers of Barack Obama in the run up to the 2008 presidential election when he described a meeting he attended where Bill Ayers and Weather Underground members talked openly about how they would have to murder an estimated 25 million people following the revolution they were then attempting to foment.
It was the delivery of a message to send the first shiver down spines of Americans who realized that Bill Ayers, the same unrepentant domestic terrorist, who had one of the first fundraiser for Barack Obama at his Chicago home, had also served with Obama on the Woods Fund a grant-making foundation and on the Annenberg Challenge, which dispersed almost a hundred million dollars to Chicago public schools.
“After the Weathermen went “underground” in 1970 when many of them were being sought by the FBI on criminal charges, Cuban intelligence officers were in touch with them from both the Cuban Mission to the United Nations in New York and the Cuban Embassy in Canada,” according to a 400-page FBI report. (Canada Free Press Oct. 28, 2008)
In fact according to the report, Ayers played a primary role in the Venceremos Brigades, a role revealed courtesy of Larry Grathwohl, a man publicly described as the “most effective informer the FBI ever placed among the Weathermen.”
Grathwohl was a man who always put his country first. During the Vietnam War, he was a member of a Hatchet Force unit of the 101st Airborne Division. This tiny but dedicated force of 40 or fewer men was sent in to rescue other Special Operators in trouble and to take on the Vietnamese Communist forces operating in the area.
Grathwohl testified before the U.S. Senate in 1974 about Weather Underground operations, specifically naming Ayers’ wife Bernardine Dohrn as the person responsible for a deadly bombing. The deadly duo likely thought they’d seen the end of him when they got off on a technicality, but he followed them in life right up to his death.
After Obama was elected president, his silence about his ongoing friendship with Ayers was deafening, they were just friends in the same ‘hood, he said. That didn’t stop Grathwohl who traveled on his own time and money to seminars where Ayers and Dohrn were scheduled to speak, patiently waiting his turn to challenge them about their participation in terrorism and murder. Ayers and Dohrn often slipped out the back door before Grathwohl could confront them, but that never stopped him from turning up at the next seminar.
The kind of man who always put the troubles of others before his own, it was on January 30, 2013, when Grathwohl started off an interview on the Hagmann and Hagmann Report radio show to ask people to help radio host Laurie Roth, who was then losing her show.
God rest your soul, Larry Grathwohl. American patriots will remember your remarkable courage and compassion forever.
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RIP Mr. Grathwhol.
Had no idea about his history with the 101st or that he lived in Cincinnati.
Did I miss it, or does the article not report the cause of death?
Nothing in the article, I'm thinking it was age related though. I'll see what I can find.
cause of death not yet released....
Breitbart...
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Wonder if he was on the hit list?
I do hope it was age related and we don't have to cross-post this in the "Suspicious Deaths" thread.
We'll have to keep an eye on this one.
"Sudden heart attack Syndrome" seems to follow enemies of the state of late.
Col. Bud Day, Heroic Pilot in Vietnam War, Dies at 88
July 28, 2013
Col. Bud Day, an Air Force fighter pilot who was shot down in the Vietnam War, imprisoned with John McCain in the notorious “Hanoi Hilton” and defiantly endured more than five years of brutality without divulging sensitive information to his captors, earning him the Medal of Honor, died on Saturday in Shalimar, Fla. He was 88.
His death was announced by his wife, Doris.
Colonel Day was among America’s most highly decorated servicemen, having received nearly 70 medals and awards, more than 50 for combat exploits. In addition to the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest award for valor, he was awarded the Air Force Cross, the highest combat award specifically for airmen.
In a post on Twitter on Sunday, Senator McCain called Colonel Day “my friend, my leader, my inspiration.”
Colonel Day’s life was defined by the defiance he showed in North Vietnamese prison camps, where besides Mr. McCain, the future senator and Republican presidential candidate, whose Navy fighter jet had been downed, his cellmates included James B. Stockdale, also a Navy pilot, who became Ross Perot’s running mate in his 1992 presidential campaign.
When he volunteered for duty in Vietnam and was assigned to a fighter wing in April 1967, Colonel Day, then a major, had flown more than 4,500 hours in fighters.
On Aug. 26, 1967, he was on a mission to knock out a surface-to-air missile site 20 miles inside North Vietnam when his F-100 was hit by antiaircraft fire. He suffered eye and back injuries and a broken arm when he ejected, and he was quickly captured.
Major Day was strung upside-down by his captors, but after his bonds were loosened, he escaped after five days in enemy hands. He made it across a river, using a bamboo-log float for support, and crossed into South Vietnam. He wandered barefoot and delirious for about two weeks in search of rescuers, surviving on a few berries and frogs. At one point, he neared a Marine outpost, but members of a Communist patrol spotted him first, shot him in the leg and hand, and captured him.
This time, Major Day could not escape. He was shuttled among various camps, including the prison that became known as the Hanoi Hilton, and was beaten, starved and threatened with execution. His captors demanded information on escape plans and methods of communication among the prisoners of war, as well as on America’s air war.
In February 1971, he joined with Admiral Stockdale, then a commander and the ranking American in the prison camp, and other prisoners in singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” while rifle muzzles were pointed at them by guards who had burst into a prisoners’ forbidden religious service.
He was released on March 14, 1973, having supplied only false information to his interrogators. He was promoted to colonel during his captivity, and on March 4, 1976, President Gerald R. Ford presented him with the Medal of Honor at a ceremony in which Admiral Stockdale was also awarded the medal.
Colonel Day received the medal for his escape and evasion, brief though it was, and his refusal to yield to his tormentors.
“Colonel Day was totally debilitated and unable to perform even the simplest task for himself,” the citation read. “Despite his many injuries, he continued to offer maximum resistance. His personal bravery in the face of deadly enemy pressure was significant in saving the lives of fellow aviators who were still flying against the enemy.”
Mr. McCain recalled in his memoir, “Faith of My Fathers,” written with Mark Salter, that Colonel Day “was a tough man, a fierce resister, whose example was an inspiration to every man who served with him.”
Telling how Colonel Day, in wretched condition himself, comforted him when he was near death from beatings, Senator McCain wrote that Colonel Day “had an indomitable will to survive with his reputation intact, and he strengthened my will to live.”
George Everette Day, known as Bud, was born on Feb. 24, 1925, in Sioux City, Iowa. He quit high school to join the Marines in 1942 and served with an antiaircraft battery on Johnston Island in the Pacific during World War II.
He graduated from Morningside College in Sioux City, obtained a law degree from the University of South Dakota and then received an officer’s commission in the Iowa Army National Guard. After transferring to the Air Force Reserve, he was recalled to active duty in 1951 and received pilot training. He flew a fighter-bomber, tracking Soviet planes off the coast of Japan, during the Korean War and then remained in military service.
After coming home from Vietnam, Colonel Day underwent physical rehabilitation, regained his flight status and served as vice commander of a flight wing at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. He retired from the military in 1977 after being passed over for brigadier general and then practiced law in Fort Walton Beach, Fla.
Colonel Day represented military retirees in a federal court case aimed at securing what they said were health benefits once promised by their recruiters. He campaigned for Mr. McCain when he challenged George W. Bush for the 2000 Republican presidential nomination. When President Bush sought re-election in 2004, Colonel Day worked with the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth organization in sharply attacking Mr. Bush’s Democratic opponent, Senator John Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran, over his antiwar activities after coming home. Colonel Day backed Mr. McCain’s presidential bid in 2008.
In addition to his wife, Colonel Day is survived by two sons, Steven and George Jr.; two daughters, Sandra Hearn and Sonja LaJeunesse; and 14 grandchildren.
Admiral Stockdale, his fellow prisoner of war, died in 2005.
Looking back on the torment he endured as a prisoner, Colonel Day expressed pride over the way he and his fellow prisoners of war had conducted themselves. “As awful as it sounds, no one could say we did not do well,” he told The Associated Press in 2008.
Being held prisoner “was a major issue in my life, and one that I am extremely proud of,” he said. “I was just living day to day.”