Template:Did you know nominations/Ted Sampley
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Revision as of 17:06, 3 May 2019 by imported>Daniel Case (had to review another nom after the nominator of the original nom I reviewed had a hissy fit over my comments and nominated the nom for speedy deletion following my review)
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Ted Sampley
- ... that John McCain called POW/MIA activist Ted Sampley, who died 10 years ago today, "one of the most despicable people I have ever had the misfortune to encounter."? "Mr. McCain, an Arizona Republican, called the man, Ted Sampley, 'one of the most despicable people I have ever had the misfortune to encounter.'" The New York Times; February 14, 2004
- ALT1:... that POW/MIA activist Ted Sampley, who died 10 years ago today, discovered that the Vietnam War Unknown Soldier was in fact Michael Blassie? "Ted Sampley, publisher of the "The U.S. Veterans Dispatch" newsletter that wrote about Blassie in 1994, said that investigators had enough physical evidence recovered from a crash site excavated in October 1972 to conclude the bones were those of Blassie." CNN, January 20, 2998
- Reviewed: Mubarez-ud-Daulah
- Comment: Recreated from an article deleted six years ago. I would like this to run on May 12, the tenth anniversary of Sampley's death, as the hooks suggest. I know I often criticize hooks like the main one, because it's usually more about the person being quoted, but in this case I think it's warranted as McCain did not say that sort of thing lightly; he was known to be forgiving to most of his adversaries (even, as Sampley noted in response, his torturers in Vietnam)
Created by Daniel Case (talk) and Bri (talk). Nominated by Daniel Case (talk) at 04:00, 3 May 2019 (UTC).