Medal of Honor fails to impress airline security

Washington Times ^ | 1/19/02 | Joyce Howard Price

[kattracks]

Airline security personnel at Phoenix's international airport questioned a retired general and war hero about the Medal of Honor he was carrying before he boarded a flight to Washington, D.C.

"They just didn't know what it was but they acted like I shouldn't be carrying it on," retired Marine Corps Gen. Joseph J. Foss of Scottsdale, Ariz., said yesterday in a telephone interview.

[leadpenny]

Sad, just friggin sad.

[RLK]

Joe Foss? A marine corps legend.

[Paleo Conservative]

How are non-citizen baggage screeners supposed to know what a Medal of Honor is?

[Truth29]

All this to avoid profiling young arab men.

[Don Myers]

There is an answer to all of this nonsense. Just don't fly.

[goldstategop]

Its ridiculous. Do they really think a U.S general will hijack and fly a plane into a building? Now that's funny.

[leadpenny]

FDR didn't give him anything. He earned it.

[abigkahuna]

Welcome to FreeRepublic DU guy. Democrat Underground?

[Iris7]

Those horrid creeps. Cretins. This is Joe Foss of Guadalcanal.

This was a gross insult to all Americans.

[leadpenny]

Something against the NRA?

[leadpenny]

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[cincinnati_Steve]

That's two strikes against him right there, but if FDR gave him a medal I guess he ain't all bad.

8 posted on 1/19/02 2:03 AM Eastern by DU guy

Hyuk hyuk. Figures that you'd belittle a man truly worthy of admiration.

you forgot an "h"

[Fred Mertz]

Looks like the terrorists are winning again. This is disgusting.

[Cultural Jihad]

Wow. 140 Medal of Honor winners left. Once they're gone all we will have will be the licentious, self-indulgent, lazy, pleasure-oriented, unproductive, me-first, America-last, moral-liberal baby-boomers running the show. Their spawn after them, those who survived the arbortoreums only to go through the me-first culture which their parents foisted onto everyone else, will not be much better.

[goldstategop]

Is DU guy a liberal disruptor? Guess the way he went after Joseph Foss shows what dummies exist over in the parallel universe called DU. Are they that anti-American that they can't respect a Medal of Honor hero? What a moron.

[Regulator]

Who the Hell are you to make snide remarks about Gen. Foss? Joe Foss was a legend and an inspiration to my parents in WWII, and to me growing up. A man who risked his life in 10,000 ways for the United States. If you don't know about it, don't comment!!!