07-02-2013, 03:10 PM
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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
Jesus - what the fuck?!
Cop Testifying At Zimmerman Trial Wore Military Ribbons She Didn't Earn
Combat veteran Jeremiah Workman couldn't believe what he was seeing: a police officer testifying at the George Zimmerman murder trial was wearing military ribbons. ?Am I going blind or is this police officer in the Zimmerman-Martin trial wearing ribbons that she doesn?t rate?? He wrote beside a picture he posted to Facebook.
Gina Harkins of The Military Times saw his posting and reached out to Workman, who fought as a Marine in the second battle of Fallujah and was awarded the Navy Cross for valor.
She reports that Workman noticed two ribbons in particular ? the World War II Army of Occupation Medal and the Defense Distinguished Service Medal. |
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Workman got a hold of them and said they told him they didn?t have their own awards system, so they went to the Army-Navy store around the corner and picked out Defense Department military ribbons to fit their own format. The WWII was selected, the police department official told Workman, because they knew there weren?t many veterans from that period alive so they didn?t think people would notice.
?At the end of his explanation I thought to myself, ?So that makes it all better now because these guys are dead?? ? Workman said. ?The fact that that was their response is still pretty shameful, I think.?
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