Dan Moran graduated from Texas A&M university and volunteered for the US Marine Corps. After graduating from Officer Candidate School and being commissioned as a Marine 2Lt, he was deployed to Iraq twice, serving in Fallujah and Ramadi in 2005 and 2006. He was grievously wounded in an IED attack in 2006.
An ambush that hit his platoon during his second deployment to Ramadi, Iraq, left Moran with third-degree burns over 50 percent of his body, a comprehension fracture in his T-8 vertebrae, herniated discs, a mild traumatic injury and an inhalation injury. He endured 30 surgeries and more than two-and-a-half years of treatment at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio.
Dan eventually returned to Texas to start and manage his own thriving business. Along the way, he got a phone call from a fellow Aggie currently living in Austin, and soon found himself taken in as a part of that man’s family. This week, Capt Moran traveled to Iowa to support his bid for the presidency.
CAPT MORAN: I’m here (in Iowa) to support Gov. Rick Perry. I’m here to tell my fellow countrymen and countrywomen that he is the person that we need in the Oval Office. He’s the person that we need as Commander-in-Chief of our armed forces. He’s the person that we need to get our economy working again. He truly is the proven conservative. All I had to do, all anyone has to do is look at his record. He has executive experience. He doesn’t need on the job training. He’s ready on day one.
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A lot of people don’t realize just who he is as a person. The character of the man. His unique relationship with veterans, not only veterans but those that are actively serving in the military. He sees each one of those as his own son, his own daughter, his own brother, or sister. He truly truly…just loves them.
I conducted this interview with Capt Moran on Tuesday in West Des Moines, Iowa.
Yeah. And Perry isn’t fit to be COMMANDER IN CHIEF. Riiiiight.
America is screwed w/out Perry at the helm. But if other states don’t want it, fine. Texas will go on to prosper w/out you and you’ll have to deal w/it, & live w/it.
AMEN!
You took the words right out of my mouth.
Bryan! stop it! You’re making me cry!
Now that Perry has said he is going to South Carolina, it is time for Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann and other prominent Tea Party types to endorse him.
Nothing wrong with getting an endosement from the likes of Governor Palin.
But why doesn’t Governor Perry declare himself the Tea Party candidate running for President. His support of smaller government, less spending, less regulation, less taxes are all Tea Party values.
So why doesn’t he declare himself:
!!! The Tea Party Candidate running for President !!!
Meanwhile . . .
Ron Paul, who loves to have his followers parrot his claims about how he has the most support of active duty servicemen, has someone appear in uniform – a violation of military regulations, lie about his status, lie about his deployments, to endorse him.
(And I won’t even mention the IVAW member who took his show to KGBTV that Ron Paul endorsed for Congress.)
And yet we are firmly told that Ron Paul is more qualified to be Commander-in-Chief because he gave flight exams for two years.
Uh huh.
“has someone appear in uniform – a violation of military regulations, lie about his status, lie about his deployments, to endorse him”.
That’s interesting, if true. Do you have credible supporting links?
The story is all over but you haven’t heard about it?
Okay . . . http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/05/paul-earns-backing-from-troops-one-member-faces-possible-discipline/
Summary:
The man was in uniform, which is a violation of regulations.
He has had one deployment, not two.
He is in the reserves, not on active duty.
Oh, and that does not include his felony conviction in Florida, which, perversely enough, is the only reason he even has one deployment.
Meanwhile, in related news, there’s an anecdote going around about another inactive duty military supporter of Ron Paul buying himself a snootful of fist for saying more SEALS “deserve” to be lost during a wake for one who was lost.
There’s something “sublimely admirable” about a man who attracts that level of quality of supporter.
I can identify with Capt Moran to some extent. I’m also a graduate of Texas A&M, a former Marine (even served in 1/6 too), & I have known the Governor personally as well, though all this many years before the Captain. I understand what he is saying in a way that others may not completely link into because I know something of where he comes from, though I have been spared the enormous trial that he has been through. But Capt Moran speaks eloquently of our need to have Rick Perry in the White House, & this message needs to come throughh loud & clear, particularly through the morass of political obfuscation that is being thrown up by rivals & the media.
Rick Perry’s personality, sincere convictions, experience, intelligence, ability, & commitment are exemplary. This country needs him.
Capt. Moran is inspiring and impressive. Says quite a bit about Perry to have such a fine man endorse him so sincerely and whole-heartedly, however this campaign run turns out.
A “comprehension fracture”?
If you cant beat Romney, you cant beat Obama. He already lost one election to Romney, and defaulted on the second contest and he is an extreme longshot for the third contest. That doesn’t sound like “winner” strategy to me, frankly its almost Huntsman like in its ineffectiveness.
Perry is the best chance for a not-mitt candidate. He’s also the only other Governor, which for me is a prime qualification for the job of President. While his record as governor is laudable, its the candidate himself and his organization that simply hasn’t delivered in this campaign.
The first test of a Presidential candidate is how well you run your campaign for President. Perry, for all his depth as Governor, just hasn’t executed very well so far. Its a cruel metric, but there you go.
Perry’s biggest burden has always been the lingering ghost of GWB. I’m afraid that his coming off like he did in the debates did not help him exorcise that spectre which he badly needed to do, it just reinforced the bigotry that exists in the mind of the electorate for Texas Governors.
Sad, but such as is life.
I don’t hear much about Bush, don’t think much about Bush, when I see and hear Perry or about Perry.
I’m not crazy about his whining over Virginia’s primary process, especially since he seems to have been less than fully honest about how many signatures he managed to turn in. And did I just see that he complained about Iowa’s, too? (that non-Republicans can vote in the caucus). Meh.
Neither a soldier’s military brilliance nor his suffering, demonstrates his political understanding. This entire thread is disgusting, emotional, anti-American, weepy nonsense. I suggest that PJMedia has lowered its standards in presenting this.