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Before those four tours in vietnam, before that remarkable tour in korea david hackworth also served at the very tail end of world war ii. and the reason his career was able to span that distance, to span all those different conflicts over those decades is in part because he started really, really young. he used a fake i.d. to sign up in the first place when he was 15 years old. according to his "new york times" obituary he, quote, paid a wineo to pose as his father to certify he was old enough to join the u.s. army. he signed up at 15. in his career in the army david hackworth was awarded ten...

Very highly decorated u.s. army colonel. so that decision from that position to make that dramatic pronouncement about war on the tv news, that was how the u.s. army lost the best battalion commander i ever saw in the u.s. army. after he made those public remarks criticizing the war david hackworth got out of the army in 1971, he had to after criticizing the war as a serving officer in that way, at least he believed he had to. gave up his medals in protest although they were eventually reinstated years later. david hackworth moved halfway around the world. he lived in australia and became a su...

Colonel in 1971 when having just served those four hard tours in vietnam he decided back in the united states that he would go on tv as a serving u.s. army colonel because he felt like he had something to say to the american public about the vietnam war that this country was still in, that he had been fighting in for all those years. on june 27th, 1971, david hackworth appeared on an abc news show called "issues and answers." he called vietnam a bad war. he said the united states should get out. he basically made the case that it was unwinnable. it is a powerful thing in our country when a vet...