Walmart hasn’t been the same since Sam passed away. IIRC all his kids turned out to be Liberal Clinton and Obama supporters.
@txradioguy One of his sons was a Special Forces medic that earned a Silver Star and a Purple Heart while running recon operations in Northern Laos with MACV-SOG during the VN War.
He was an amateur pilot that died a few years ago in an airplane crash. I can easily be wrong on this,but I THINK it was an experimental plane that he designed and built.
I am positive about the MACV-SOG and Silver Star,though.Truth to tell,if he had done the same thing in a conventional army unit chock full of witnesses,he may have been put in for a Medal of Honor for his actions. He pretty much single-handedly fought off a large force of NVA troops while wounded himself and treating his wounded team mates and directing air strikes and calling in the rescue helicopter. Ask anybody who has ever been in combat if that is a big deal and see what reaction you get.
I know nothing about the other children,other than the fact that they (and he) were living off the trust fund profits. I am semi-sure I remember reading that Sam Walton set up trust funds for them and turned over control of Wal-Mart to pros,while reserving board seats for his children.
BTW,we can all "thank" Wal-Mart ,the Bush Crime Family,and the Clintons for the Chinese marketing invasion of America,all the cheap Chinese crap that entered our country,and all the jobs and factories that left.
Bush was President at the time,and Bubbette! Clintion,the Arkansas Governer's wife,was given a seat on the Wal-Mart board by Sam,based on her vast business experience of "none at all". The Bush Crime Family has the contacts in China to make this happen thanks to Poppy having been the first US Ambassador to China,as well as a former Director of the CIA. When he formally recognized China and sent them an Ambassador,he also sent his Uncle to China to open the "US Chinese Chamber of Commerce."
Or I may be wrong it was all just a coincidence that just seemed to work out financially for the Clinton and Bush families.