and Erik Saar at noon PDT (his new book is about prisoner abuse at Guantanamo – Inside the Wire : A Military Intelligence Soldier’s Eyewitness Account of Life at Guantanamo)
David Hackworth died this week of cancer. I am so pleased that CSPAN2 is airing this interview — from 1989 — at 12:45 PDT today. Read a eulogy at his own site: “The cause of death was a form of cancer now appearing with increasing frequency among Vietnam veterans exposed to the defoliants called Agents Orange and Blue.”
Here’s a remembrance at That’s Another Fine Mess. The author knew Col. Hackworth so it’s written from a friend’s perspective. Go check it out.
That is wonderful, pacifica. Lines like this: “His parents both died before he was a year old and his grandmother, who rescued him from an orphanage, raised him on tales of his family’s role in the American Revolution and the Old West, and the ethos of the Great Depression. …”
He was very special to me. Every time he was on television or on the radio, I stopped what I was doing to listen. He was authentic and passionate.
http://www.hackworth.com/ Here is his own website that I checked regularly to see what he was talking about or to find out what was really going on in Iraq…as he had many, many sources for the hardcore facts.
He tirelessly fought for the boots on the ground and spoke out against this senseless war in Iraq to say nothing of how poorly it was being executed….and that boots on the ground were being given the shaft-without the right equipment, training etc.
He is also the guy who basically told Rummy to go to hell last year. Don’t have the exact quote handy but just for that he had me whooping it up that someone of his stature was speaking the truth.
There is a fine tribute on his front page and a guest book you can sign which will then lead you to his website.
I was so sorry when I read that he had died and have had a bit of a cloud over me the last few days due to hearing that…and I really don’t know what else to say.
jeez…………thats what I get for speed reading susan…you have the link to his site posted already…I feel like an idiot, sorry.
not at all … you elaborated on what’s there. It’s quite a site although I recall that the links to the articles — this was months ago — were confusing.
He’ll be missed sorely.