Too bad he had to get it from such a miserable anti-American illegal alien. What a shame! But he’s a bigger man than the wimp who gave him the award.
GOD Bless him and GOD Bless The United States of America!!
This post is not where my mind usually runs and indicates an excess of skepticism, if not paranoia. I noticed on Tuesday when Staff Sgt. Salvatore A. Giunta received the Medal of Honor from President Obama, he became the first living Medal of Honor winner of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
Bush father and son oversaw wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for over three times as long as Obama, and with many more troops more intensely involved, but no one who survived an act of heroism ever measured up to the high standards of the Medal of Honor. There were many awards of the Distinguished Service Cross and the Navy Cross, but never the Medal of Honor.
This statistical anomaly excites my paranoia enough to ask the following questions. Has the Medal of Honor again become a political award as was the case in the first months of WW II (Colin Kelly, John Bulkeley, etal), and shamefully at Wounded Knee where twenty three soldiers of the 7th Cavalry received the decoration? During the Bush years were some of our troops cheated of the award to avoid media and Democrat accusations that heroism was being improperly embellished just to enhance political popularity? (In the case of Staff Sgt. Giunta, there was over one year under W’s administration to decide in favor of the award.) Was a worthy recognition withheld by the Bush administrations, granted by the Obama administration just because Obama had the opportunity for a precious photo op where he could pretend to be a Commander in Chief with a person of color?
These are not nice thoughts and I certainly understand anyone who would consider them irrational.
Commission assured, and probably a star at least.
I'm sure they'll let him choose whatever career path he wants.