If you've not heard much about Joshua Sparling you need to know that he is a true American hero. In the midst of having to deal with his devastating injuries sustained from his duties in protecting the American people, he was treated to a "we hope you die" card that had been to look "patriotic" on the outside. Michelle Malkin first shined the spotlight on the incident.
"Dear Soldier,
Have a great time in the war and have a great time dieing in the war.
From, Miguel
P.S. DIE"
One year later Sparling had to have his leg amputated.
After more than five hours of surgery Wednesday, Pfc. Joshua Sparling is slowly recovering from having his right leg amputated, his father said.
Doctors had hoped to save the 25-year-old Greenwood Township man's leg after he was hit by a bomb in Iraq nearly a year ago, but the damage was too extensive. The surgery was done at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
Mind you - he was hit by a bomb, the doctors tried for five hours of surgery and one year of waiting to see if his leg would heal, but in the end he lost a limb.
So it was bad enough when he got the death wish card, but only a week ago as Joshua was asked to speak in support of the troops via a counter demonstration at the less-than-massive anti-war rally in Washington DC. This was the reception he received.
Now to add insult to injury the moonbats at DU are labeling PFC Joshua Sparling - a war hero - an outright liar.
I simply wonder how many of the cowards at DU would be willing to take a bomb for their own family or friends - much less this nation that they hate with such vengence.
No further evidence has surfaced to indicate that this scene actually occurred, but of course it plays nicely into the widespread-but-mysteriously-never-documented stories of anti-war protesters spitting on Vietnam veterans in the '60s and '70s. So Josh Sparling happily visited Hannity & Colmes that night to confirm that indeed, he had been spit upon by a protester, and - contrary to the Times report - he did not spit back.
SPARLING: What we were doing, actually, was doing the anti-protest protest, and we were there with our flags, and all that happened was a fella saw me wearing my 82nd Airborne sweater, and I noticed he also had an 82nd patch on his own sleeve, and he said I was a disgrace, basically, and that I was -- that I had blood on my hands and that I had no right wearing the uniform, and he spit at me.
ALAN COLMES: And you spit back?
SPARLING: Of course I did not.
The thing is, there's plenty of video of the peace march on YouTube, and if you check it out you can clearly see that Sparling and Co. are some distance from the anti-war protesters. Yet curiously, despite all the video and photographs which were taken at the event, there is no evidence of anyone actually spitting in the direction of Sparling. But you can take his word for it, can't you? After all, why would he lie?
In the same story the DU pondscum outrightly also lie about Malkin's claims that even the links in this post - already disprove.
Disgusting, dispicable, deceitful, dirtbags... that's the state of modern day Democrats.