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I am curious as to why it took so long to award this medal? It seems that we hear of these (late) medals being awarded every month, or so. Did somebody just slip up? Or, have the critera changed in the interveneing years?

It seems that JFKerry got a medal for a grain of rice imbedded in is butt while true heros have waited their entire lives for thanks, or recogniton.

“.....JFKerry got a medal for a grain of rice imbedded in his butt.....”

I always thought John ‘effin Kerry got a medal for having a stick up his a$$.

I am curious as to why it took so long to award this medal? It seems that we hear of these (late) medals being awarded every month, or so. Did somebody just slip up? Or, have the critera changed in the interveneing years?

It's mostly a case-by-case basis. Some bureaucratic foul ups, some cases of family/friends doing some research and discovering that a loved one qualified for a medal but did not receive one and then fighting to get it awarded (happens a lot these days with pre-War on Terror Medal of Honor awards. Friends and family of Major Dick Winters - driven by the surviving members of Co.E, 506 PIR/Band of Brothers - have been fighting for years to get him the Medal of Honor for his assault on the German artillery positions above Utah Beach. He was put in for the Medal of Honor, but didn't get one because of artificial quotas for D-Day actions (1 or 2 MoH's only per division)).

In this case, it's entirely possible that he was deliberately denied the Bronze Star because of the political situation and the desire to bury the story of the Allied sellout of the Draza Mihailovich partisans in favor of Tito. Read "Forgotten 500", it explains the political side of the situation in detail.