http://www.metafilter.com/tags/hackworth Posts tagged with 'hackworth' at MetaFilter. Fri, 06 May 2005 09:34:15 -0800 Fri, 06 May 2005 09:34:15 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/41796/David%2DHackworth%2Dfades%2Daway <a href="http://hackworth.com/">Col. David Hackworth</a>, who billed himself as America's most decorated living soldier (he had eight Purple Hearts and ten Silver Stars), died in Mexico <a href="http://www.military.com/Opinions/0,,Hackworth_050505,00.html">this week</a> at age 74. Hackworth saw combat in World War II (having joined the Army at 15), Korea, and Vietnam; in 1967 he and <a href="http://libraryweb.utep.edu/special/findingaids/marshalsla.cfm">Gen. Samuel Marshall</a> wrote the <a href="http://www.textfiles.com/survival/vietprmr.txt"><i>Vietnam Primer</i></a>, a "lessons learned" document prepared for the Army to explain how <i>not</i> to fight a guerilla war. In 1971, after years in-country, Hackworth turned publically against the war, telling ABC News that it could not be won and moving to Australia, where his anti-nuclear efforts earned him a United Nations Medal for Peace. Hackworth was a distinguished war correspondent, a self-appointed advocate for the average soldier who used <a href="http://www.sftt.org/">his website</a> as a soapbox, a best-selling <a href="http://www.hackworth.com/usbookorders.html">author</a>, a critic of American tactics in the Iraq War, and possibly the only figure respected by both <a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/archives.asp?AUTHOR_ID=9">WorldNetDaily</a> and <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=1&q=http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0805-09.htm&e=747">Common Dreams</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.41796 Fri, 06 May 2005 09:34:15 -0800 army hackworth iraq obituary vietnam snarkout