Since the Vietnam War, when medals were handed out like candy, the degradation of medals has only gotten worse. Colonels in Nam got Silver Stars for merely being in country for6 months. The DOD issued more medals for Grenada than there were sevicemen on the island. Soldiers stationed in the States or Europe got the same preference as those who served in the war zone. Today you see more medals on some clerk who never left thd States than Admiral Halsey had. Civilian medals are even more degraded. The Freedom Medal is now officially worthless.
“Since the Vietnam War, when medals were handed out like candy, the degradation of medals has only gotten worse. Colonels in Nam got Silver Stars for merely being in country for6 months.
The DOD issued more medals for Grenada than there were servicemen on the island. Soldiers stationed in the States or Europe got the same preference as those who served in the war zone.
Today you see more medals on some clerk who never left the States than Admiral Halsey had. Civilian medals are even more degraded. The Freedom Medal is now officially worthless.”
I respectfully disagree. I have known heroic men who (as an example) were awarded the Distinguished Flying
Cross (Helicopters in Vietnam) and I have read their citations - they are not all still with us, but their heroism lives on eternally!