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Lieberman joins fight for domestic Purple Heart awards

by Jonn Lilyea••6

In the Stars & Stripes, Leo Shane reports that Joe Lieberman has joined with Senators from Texas and Arkansas to lobby the Defense Department to award to casualties of domestic terrorists in those States.

At a hearing Wednesday, Lieberman said he will try to insert an amendment in the annual defense authorization bill (currently in conference committee) to award a posthumous Purple Heart to Army recruiter Pvt. William Long, who was killed in a brazen 2009 shooting by a radical Islamic adherent.

I don’t see anything coming from this because this administration seems allergic to admitting that the war against terrorists has come home with the troops. Our first line of defense in this domestic war is the defense of the 2d Amendment which is contrary to this administration’s ideological leanings. We’ve seen how they’ll sacrifice the economy for their adherents in the environmental hostage business, the same goes for the gun issue.

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6 thoughts on “Lieberman joins fight for domestic Purple Heart awards”

  1. Pvt. Long and the other deserve the Honor. As a Holder of the Purple Heart myself (IED June 10 2005)I believe they deserve it. They were targeted because of who they were, because of the uniform they wore by self admitted Jihadi scumbags. Where they were Killed/Wounded should not matter.

  2. If I remember correctly, the soldiers that were killed years ago in Germany by a terrorist bomb in a nightclub where awarded the Purple Heart. No difference here except for the denial we are fighting a certain group and it’s a war. As a recipient of the Purple Heart, 31 Jul 69, I believe he and any other service member who where killed or wounded by these scum bags, no matter where, deserve the medal. It’s a no brainer. Oops..sorry, present administration excluded.

    Honor and Courage

  3. What is the difference between a firefight in Iraq/Afghanistan and in Texas?

    Nope can’t think of a difference myself.

  4. The criteria that I’ve read, for the Purple Heart, one being “In any action against an enemy of the United States”.
    Seems that this would make any one wounded or killed here eligible.

  6. There is no “war on terror” and Ft. Hood was a “domestic violence incident”. Move along, nothing to see here

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