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Curtis Lemay



Curtis Lemay is currently the United States’ Secretary of Defense, and a former Constitution Party Chairman and founder. Although a staunch conservative, he is known to be cooperative with liberals on some issues, including abortion.

Biography

Early Life Curtis Richard Lemay was born on November 9th, 1955 in the Panama Canal Zone to two an American English Teacher, Helen Lemay and a American Army Lt. Colonel, Ben Lemay. Lemay lived his childhood in the zone for 7 years before his family moved out to Phoenix, Arizona in search of a better job for his mother.

Vietnam Service Soon after graduating from college, in 1968 Lemay was 18 and at the height of the war in Vietnam. While many of Lemay’s friends began draft dodging, Lemay chose to enlist, mainly to respect his father and get him to pitch in to his college fund.

During the war, Lemay was assigned to the 7th mechanized infantry division, where he was put in charge of defending the city of hue from Viet-Cong attacks. Lemay recalled Vietnam as “one of the harshest damn places I’ve ever been”. Lemay was involved in numerous combat encounters, many of which he had to shoot n’ kill in. While Lemay was nominated for a Purple Heart Medal, it was later withdrawn after his alleged involvement in war crimes in Hue. These allegations were proven untrue, but was not nominated for a Purple Heart again.

Lemay met many friends in Vietnam, including Air Force Pilot and future Senator John McCain. In 1972 Lemay was re-located to Saigon as a Military Policeman, and eventually discharged in 1973.

After Vietnam Life after Vietnam became hard for Lemay. The numerous energy and financial crisises of the late 1970s effected his father’s financial situation, and while Lemay enrolled into the university of Nevada he found the “College Culture” at odds with his own in many instances. One of his friends at the University, nicknamed “E-Man” was found overdosed on his dorm at age 27, leading Lemay to gain a lifelong hatred of Drugs. Lemay graduated in 1980,