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Pat Robertson, the famous televangelist and conservative commentator, died June 8 at the age of 93.<\/p>\n
n 1948, the draft<\/a> was reinstated and Robertson was given the option of joining the U.S. Marine Corps or being drafted into the U.S. Army; he opted for the former. Robertson described his military service as follows: “We did long, grueling marches to toughen the men, plus refresher training in firearms and bayonet combat.” In the same year, he transferred to Korea, “I ended up at the headquarters command of the First Marine Division,” says Robertson. “The Division was in combat in the hot and dusty, then bitterly cold portion of North Korea just above the 38th Parallel later identified as the ‘Punchbowl’ and ‘Heartbreak Ridge’.” For Robertson’s service in the Korean War, he was awarded three Battle Stars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Apparently somewhere along the way he went to Officers Schools as it is mentioned he was promoted to O-2 when he returned to the US.<\/p>\n
Robertson founded the Christian Broadcasting Network in 1960 and was ordained as a Southern Baptist minister a year later. He used that perch, including his daily show \u201cThe 700 Club\u201d \u2013 named for its goal of 700 members whose pledges would keep the station afloat financially \u2013 to push his message of conservative Christian values to people at home, taking aim at gay rights, feminism, abortion and other social issues.<\/p>\n
Robertson helped transform the conservative evangelical movement into a political force on the American right that helped elect Ronald Reagan. He then ran for the Republican nomination for president in 1988, coming in behind both George H.W. Bush and Bob Dole.<\/p>\n
Over his many years, Robertson made a series of inflammatory and controversial opinions, and repeatedly said that acts of terrorism or natural disasters were a form of divine retribution for perceived immorality.<\/p>\n
After the 9\/11 attacks, Robertson agreed with fellow televangelist Jerry Falwell that God allowed the terrorists to succeed because America had moved to the left and removed religion from the mainstream.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n