Senator Strom Thurmond Dies

[Boomhauer]

Senator Strom Thurmond has died

He was 100 years old

 

[Boomhauer]

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/special_packages/strom/

 

[ShawnC]

Well that was unexpected.

 

[Boomhauer]

After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, Thurmond joined the Army. He’d just turned 39.

In 1944, he landed in Normandy on D-Day with the 82nd Airborne Division, receiving the Purple Heart because of wounds suffered when his glider crashed.

For his service in World War II, he was awarded five battle stars and 18 decorations, medals and awards, including the Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster and the Bronze Star for Valor.

 

[Boomhauer]

I know politics divide us at times but when a man with as much history as Strom passes on can only stop and reflect.

Here is a man who, literally went from horse and buggy to the space age.

 

[46Driver]

Just saw the news myself - its a sad day for all us South Carolinians.

 

[chperplt]

Good riddens to one of the most anti-semetic, racist men in America.

 

[Boomhauer]

Good riddens to one of the most anti-semetic, racist men in America.

Wasn't it South Carolina's Senator Ernest Hollings who said, "Slavery was only Nature's Way of ending the argument about whether or not to raise the Minimum Wage."

 

[46Driver]

I believe Strom was the first senator to hire a black staffer - his views changed substantially over the years. As for Fritz Hollings, didn't he draw a picture of a mushroom cloud and say, "made in America, tested in Japan"?

 

[wil]

Hey Chperplt- What about Democratic Senator "Sheets" Byrd from W. Virginia? The ol' Grand Wizard never gets the same disrespect as Sen. Thurmond. What a constant moral struggle it must be to be a liberal!