North stops at church with stories of U.S. troops
Via The Western Star
North stops at church with stories of U.S. troops
By Daniel Wells
Oliver North has spent countless hours with United States troops while filming War Stories, his show on Fox News.
Now the retired lieutenant colonel wants the nation to know what he’s learned about those troops.
“I hang around with heroes,” North said Sunday night, May 4, of men and women he’s met who serve in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Philippines. “They’re putting themselves at risk for us — extraordinary risk.”
North’s involvement in the Iran Contra Affair during the Reagan Administration may have made him a controversial figure in U.S. politics, but he found a receptive audience when he stopped to promote his new book, American Heroes, at a packed Grace Baptist Church in Middletown Sunday night.
Ron Dotson, of Middletown, is a frequent viewer of North’s show and said he appreciates the perspective North brings to coverage of the war.
“I like Oliver North was a corpsman with the Marines in Vietnam,” Dotson said. “You can’t really explain combat unless you’ve experienced it.”
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