It’s amazing isn’t it, I served with a guy who was awarded the Soldiers medal and it is something to be proud off, I would have been proud of it, but it sure isn’t what we have all thought that JFK was awarded for all of these generations of us that thought that he was among the ranks of big time WWII combat heroes.
Heck, LBJ was awarded the Silver Star.
And?
Johnson's biographer, Robert Caro, stated, "The most you can say about Lyndon Johnson and his Silver Star is that it is surely one of the most undeserved Silver Stars in history, because if you accept everything that he said, he was still in action for no more than 13 minutes and only as an observer. Men who flew many missions, brave men, never got a Silver Star."