A Warrior Got His Orders

I first met Ted Sampley at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in 2005. He arrived with a contingent of veterans from Rolling Thunder. The experience was unforgettable.

In 2005, code pink and SEIU thugs were demonstrating their contempt and hatred of our military and wounded soldiers by lining the sidewalk in front of the Main Gate on Friday nights with flag-draped coffins and holding signs with slogans such as " Your son was maimed for a lie" "Sign-up here to die for Halliburton".

Ted detested the anti-war/anti-military crowd with a passion only a Viet Nam veteran could understand completely. But he was particularly disgusted with code pink.

We hit it off immediately.

He confronted moonbat protesters on their turf and he scared them. (Hell, he scared me, sometimes.) He made our favorite moonbat, nicknamed Squeegee Boy, cry and run to the code pink hags for protection.

In October of 2006, we re-united at the BootMurtha rally in Johnsown PA. and had a great time.
In 2007, at the first GoE event, Ted was taking moonbat prisoners and performing early morning wake-up calls on the code pink hags at their rally point.

That was the last time I sw him. Ted Sampley called me friend and Brother. I will miss him.

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POW advocate, Vietnam veteran Ted Sampley dies :: WRAL.com

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National and local political activist, decorated veteran, POW advocate, businessman and master potter Ted Sampley passed away Tuesday. He was 62.
Sampley, who was recovering from heart surgery a week earlier, was experiencing difficulties from the surgery at the Veteran's Hospital in Durham on Tuesday. He died while being rushed to surgery.
His sudden passing surprised many in Kinston.
"This is a shock to me," said master shipbuilder Alton Stapleford, the architect of the CSS Neuse II, which Sampley helped bring to fruition. "It's really hard to comprehend right now."
Sampley served several tours of duty in Vietnam in the U.S. Army and won four Bronze Stars, the Army Commendation Medal and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry, among other honors. He was honorably discharged during 1973.
His work with prisoner of war and missing in action groups didn't start in earnest until 1983, when he led groups demanding that the United States put pressure on Vietnam to release POWs or explain what happened to them.
Sampley was well-known on the national stage. He formed Web sites and led veteran groups against the candidacies of Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry and Republican presidential nominee John McCain.
Conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh mentioned Sampley on his national radio broadcast in 2004 for an incident with Kerry when the senator from Massachusetts allegedly gave Sampley a vulgar finger gesture in front of school children at the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C. Sampley also helped create the Web site "Vietnam Veterans against John McCain."
Sampley was also busy on the local front. During the past decade or so, Sampley helped found the local Salute festival, started construction on the CSS Neuse II and helped begin the National Walk of Honor at Neuseway Park that also honors veterans.