{"id":10617,"date":"2009-05-13T17:05:34","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T22:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=10617"},"modified":"2009-05-13T17:05:34","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T22:05:34","slug":"ted-sampley-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=10617","title":{"rendered":"Ted Sampley passes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rurick emails that POW\/MIA advocate Ted Sampley has passed<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Sampley served several tours of duty in Vietnam in the U.S. Army and won four Bronze Stars, the Army Commendation Medal and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry, among other honors. He was honorably discharged during 1973.<\/p>\n

His work with prisoner of war and missing in action groups didn’t start in earnest until 1983, when he led groups demanding that the United States put pressure on Vietnam to release POWs or explain what happened to them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I never met Mr Sampley, but I know a number of our readers have. I am, however familiar with his work. He was against John Kerry years before Kerry ran for President. And because his concern for MIA\/POWs was nonpartisan, he also actively campaigned against John McCain. <\/p>\n

Conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh mentioned Sampley on his national radio broadcast in 2004 for an incident with Kerry when the senator from Massachusetts allegedly gave Sampley a vulgar finger gesture in front of school children at the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C. Sampley also helped create the Web site “Vietnam Veterans against John McCain.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’d heard last week that Mr. Sampley wasn’t well and asked two of our members who knew him to write something for us, but it didn’t come to fruition before Mr. Sampley succumbed. There are details of his memorial service at his website US Veteran Dispatch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The viewing and funeral will be together at 3 PM on Sunday at the Tanglewood Baptist Church located at 2103 Rouse Road, Kinston NC. I will be arriving on Saturday. If you come be prepared for story telling about the man we have all come to love.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

None of us always agreed with Mr. Sampley, but none of us can deny that he was driven to find the answers to the questions that families had about about our missing troops and he never let his personal politics get in the way. We are all richer because he was here with us, and we’re poorer because he’s gone. Maybe he’ll finally find out what happened to those POW\/MIAs now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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