Truth in Media Activism: Letters...

May 6, 2005

A letter to a late friend's wife...

In Memoriam: David H. Hackworth

America's most highly decorated living soldier passes away

 

FROM PHOENIX, ARIZONA

May 6, 2005

To Eilhys England

David H. Hackworth's wife

Greenwich, CT

Subject: Hacks' passing

Dear Eilhys,

I was very sad to learn today of Hack's passing in an AP story in which you were quoted commenting from Tijuana. So I hope this letter reaches you eventually, as Greenwich was the last address I had for Hack. Please accept my sincere condolences.

Hack and I shared the passion for writing and for the truth. When at times I had doubts about whether a particular truth may be too much for this country to take (such as my 1995 prediction that America would eventually break up due to ethnic strife - see "When Cultures Collide...," Washington Times, Aug 1996), he encouraged me to publish the story anyway. I did. For that, and for many other friendship gestures I am eternally grateful to him.

"Thx Bob.  Keep punching.  You're doing a great job," he wrote to me in May 1998, for example, in response to a story about the NATO expansion (Re. "Death Merchants - 81; Taxpayers - 19", 5/02/98).

Hack and I also shared a love for Australia. He insisted that I stay at his home in Maleny, Queensland, in 1996 when I was looking for a property to buy myself down under. He was slightly pissed with me when I eventually bought a place in Western Australia. He tried to scare me off with a story of gigantic WA horse flies that can bite through a leather jacket. I thought it was hysterical that America's most highly decorated living soldier would be scared of horse flies (I've never actually encountered them... Hack may have invented the story to try to make me his neighbor in QLD). :-)

It is very sad that I will no longer be able to boast that "America's most highly decorated living soldier" is a friend of mine. To say that Hack was a great man would be a great understatement. I will miss him. I am sure you will.  Hope our country does, too.

Best regards,

Bob Djurdjevic

Iif you click on Hack's image below, you can also check out an obituary posted at his web site:

Also check out other TiM articles referencing Col. Hackworth...

"Rekindling NATO to fuel Cold War II..." (WT column, 5/17/98)
... David Hackworth, America's most decorated living soldier and a ... Hackworth
notes: "No sweat. The arms gang has set up a US-backed loan program with ...
www.truthinmedia.org/truthinmedia/ Columns/wt5-17-98-NATO.htm - 17k - Cached - Similar pages

"US Senate Picks Up the NATO Hot Potato" - TiM GW Bulletin 98/4-3 ...
... David Hackworth, America's most decorated living soldier, in his weekly column
... Hackworth notes: "No sweat. The arms gang has set up a US-backed loan ...
www.truthinmedia.org/truthinmedia/ Bulletins/tim98-4-3.html - 21k - Cached - Similar pages

Macedonia: Another Farcical American Oil War (Aug 10, 2001)
... Naturally, actions like this make Hackworth and other honorable American ...
One still-serving three-war vet, for example, told Hackworth: “A number of ...
www.truthinmedia.org/truthinmedia/ Bulletins2001/tim2001-8-1.html - 80k - Cached - Similar pages

S99-111, "Peace" 5 - Special TiM GW Bulletins (June 18, 1999)
... Hackworth: What Victory? SAN DIEGO, June 18 - We had received the following
... David Hackworth, America's most decorated living soldier, before today's ...
www.truthinmedia.org/truthinmedia/Kosovo/Peace/ps5.html - 22k - Cached - Similar pages

S99-140, KFOR "Peacefarce" 34 - Special TiM GW Bulletins (Aug. 26 ...
... David Hackworth). PHOENIX, Aug. 25 - Regular TiM readers may recognize Col.
David Hackworth not only as America's most highly decorated living soldier, ...
www.truthinmedia.org/truthinmedia/ Kosovo/Peace/ps34.html - 40k - Cached - Similar pages

Djurdjevic's speeches - English - during the tour of Serbia (Sep/99)
... David Hackworth put it. "Hack," as friends know him, is America's most ...
Hackworth version of the "Clinton Doctrine?" Bomb the civilians and the ...
www.truthinmedia.org/truthinmedia/ Tour-de-Serbia-99/serbia99-e.html - 41k - Cached - Similar pages

"TiM READERS' FORUM" June, 1998 - TiM GW Bulletin 98/6-3
... Dave Hackworth, a nationally syndicated columnist. A vast majority of those
deployments, including the Macedonian one, has never been debated by ...
www.truthinmedia.org/truthinmedia/ Bulletins/tim98-6-3.html - 33k - Cached - Similar pages

Mockery of Justice; US in Macedonia (June 30, 2001)
... David Hackworth, America’s most decorated living soldier, on the subject of
... David Hackworth (http://www.hackworth.com is the address of Hackworth's ...
www.truthinmedia.org/truthinmedia/ Bulletins2001/tim2001-6-1.html - 150k - Cached - Similar pages

Embarrassed About Such "Serbs"- letter to NEWSWEEK
... David Hackworth ("Hack"), a former NEWSWEEK defense editor, and the most
decorated living US soldier who was forced into virtual exile in Australia ...
www.truthinmedia.org/truthinmedia/ Activism/newsweek10-16.html - 8k - Cached - Similar pages

"NATO/Friedman OpEd"- Djurdjevic's letter to NYT
... David Hackworth, America's most decorated living soldier and a syndicated
columnist. It did. The final score was: Death Merchants - 81; Taxpayers - 19. ...
www.truthinmedia.org/truthinmedia/ Activism/nyt5-2-98.html - 6k - Cached - Similar pages

Truth in Media’s GLOBAL WATCH Bulletin 98-03
... Winning Was Never the Point TiM commentary/Hackworth, 12. EUROPE. Feminists Strike
at Austrian Men, Shakespeare TiM comment/Telegraph/AZ Wildcat, 13 ...
www.truthinmedia.org/truthinmedia/gvb/toc98-03.html - 7k - Cached - Similar pages

Volume V, No. 98-1 January 4, 1998
... Hungary's Rent-a-Parliament A travel vignette/TiM, 16. NORTH AMERICA. The Proud
and the Misused A column/Col. Hackworth, 17 ...
www.truthinmedia.org/truthinmedia/gvb/toc98-01.html - 6k - Cached - Similar pages

Day 19, Upd 1 - Special TiM GW Bulletins (Apr. 11, 1999)
... David Hackworth) urging a formation of volunteer American troops to fight NATO.
"It would be a kick in the pants to OJ Clinton if a volunteer force of ...
www.truthinmedia.org/truthinmedia/Kosovo/War/day19.html - 22k - Cached - Similar pages

A New Iron Curtain Over Europe
... David Hackworth, America's most decorated living soldier, estimated in May 1998.
"And somewhere down the muddy track, 14 other former Soviet bloc ...
www.truthinmedia.org/truthinmedia/ Columns/new-dawn-may99.html - 21k - Cached - Similar pages

The "Anaconda" and Washington Embarrassments (Mar 13, 2002)
... David Hackworth, summed up the basic military doctrine of the cowardly war
criminals who run the New World Order armies as follows: ...
www.truthinmedia.org/truthinmedia/ Bulletins2002/3-2.html - 165k - Cached - Similar pages

"US Senate Drops NATO Hot Potato" - TiM GW Bulletin 98/5-2 (5/01/98)
... David Hackworth, in the hope this may help "sharpen their (the Senators)
thinking" when the time to vote and be counted comes (see TiM GW Bulletin ...
www.truthinmedia.org/truthinmedia/ Bulletins/tim98-5-2.html - 19k - Cached - Similar pages

S99-130, "Peace" 24 - Special TiM GW Bulletins (July 29, 1999)
... David Hackworth wrote in his July 13 nationally syndicated column. "Pound for
pound of enemy gear destroyed, this was America's costliest war." ...
www.truthinmedia.org/truthinmedia/ Kosovo/Peace/ps24.html - 25k - Cached - Similar pages

TiM Editor's Perth Speech - English (Apr. 2, 2000)
... David Hackworth, America's most decorated living soldier, whom I also have
the privilege to count among my friends, put it, the "Clinton Doctrine" is: ...
www.truthinmedia.org/truthinmedia/ Perth2000/perth-speech-e.html - 90k - Cached - Similar pages

S99-72, Day 48, Upd 1 - Special TiM GW Bulletins (May10, 1999)
... Dave Hackworth says, the "Perfumed Princes" like Wesley K. Clark, whose egos
are so big they believe they know everything about war, when in fact, ...
www.truthinmedia.org/truthinmedia/Kosovo/War/day48.html - 28k - Cached - Similar pages

Djurdjevic's speech at the Reform Party AZ convention (May 20, 2000)
... David Hackworth put it, America's most decorated living soldier whom I also
have the privilege to count among my friends, they were all victims of the ...
www.truthinmedia.org/truthinmedia/ Speeches/rsd-rp5-20-2k.html

S99-131, "Peace" 25 - Special TiM GW Bulletins (July 31, 1999)
... David Hackworth put it in his June 15 nationally syndicated column (see
S99-111, "Peace" 5, Item 5, June 18):. "After all those bombs and missiles and ...
www.truthinmedia.org/truthinmedia/ Kosovo/Peace/ps25.html - 30k - Cached - Similar pages

"Kosovo Heating Up" - (Ben Works) - TiM GW Bulletin 98/6-4 (6/15/98)
... given the facts, I further remind readers what Colonel David Hackworth recently
wrote about the low state of readiness in 5th Corps, thanks to Bosnia, ...
www.truthinmedia.org/truthinmedia/ Bulletins/tim98-6-4.html - 29k - Cached - Similar pages

Djurdjevic's speeches - English - Australia (Oct/99)
... David Hackworth put it, America's most decorated living soldier, now a nationally
syndicated columnist and a best-selling author, whom I have the ...
www.truthinmedia.org/truthinmedia/ Speeches/aus-10-99.html - 61k - Cached - Similar pages

Djurdjevic's speech at the Reform Party AZ convention (Sept. 5, 1998)
... David Hackworth, America's most decorated living soldier, estimated in a May
column. "And somewhere down the muddy track, 14 other former Soviet bloc ...
www.truthinmedia.org/truthinmedia/ Speeches/rsd-reform.html - 34k - Cached - Similar pages

Djurdjevic's speeches - Serbian - during the tour of Serbia (Sep/99)
... Prema definiciji pukovnika David Hackworth-a, ~oveka koji ima najvi{e odlikovawa
od svih `ivih ameri~kih vojnika, poznatog autora i kolumniste koga ja ...
www.truthinmedia.org/truthinmedia/ Tour-de-Serbia-99/serbia99-s.html - 45k - Cached - Similar pages

Some Truth in Media Testimonials
... David Hackworth, America's most decorated living soldier, Montana. "Hello, Mr. Djurdjevic... I am changing the location of my ...
www.truthinmedia.org/truthinmedia/testimonials.html

P.S. For more on the American elections, check out "DEMO FARCE" AND THE AMERICAN CENTURY, TiM editor’s Washington Times column, Nov. 17, 1996; "Election '98: Much Ado About Nothing", Nov. 11, 1998)“American vs. Serbian ‘Demo Farce’;” and  "Electoral College: Origins and History".

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Also, check out... TiM Letter to Mclean's Magazine, CIA and KLA Ties, His Disgrace, Artemije, How Gen. Clark Misled the World, Death on the Danube, Reverse Fascism, Racism of the New World OrderDeath of the City, Cavorting with the Enemy (Albright), Toward a New Multipolar World in the New Millennium, Stitching Together the New World Order Flag

Or Djurdjevic's WASHINGTON TIMES columns: "Chinese Dragon Wagging Macedonian Tail,"  "An Ugly Double Standard in Kosovo Conflict?", "NATO's Bullyboys", "Kosovo: Why Are We Involved?", and "Ginning Up Another Crisis"

Or Djurdjevic's NEW DAWN magazine columns: "Washington's Crisis Factory,"  and "A New Iron Curtain Over Europe"