[massgopguy]

Did former Marine Sipple get the Medal of Freedom?

[The KG9 Kid]

No, he died in 1989 from alcoholism in SF's Tenderloin district in a dingy little apartment surrounded by newspaper clippings of his good deed.

[IAmASheeple]

Did former Marine Sipple get the Medal of Freedom?

I'm not sure, but he did get screwed over by the MSM:

From Wikipedia: "The police and the Secret Service immediately commended Sipple for his action at the scene, while Ford thanked him in a letter. The news media portrayed Sipple as a hero but would eventually report on his outing by San-Francisco gay activists, thus disclosing his private life. Though he was known to be a homosexual by various fellow members of the gay community, Sipple had not publicly "come out of the closet." His sexual identity was something he had always kept a secret from his family. He asked the press reporters to keep his homosexuality off the record, making it clear that neither his mother nor his employer had knowledge of his sexual orientation.

Despite his wishes, gay activist and politician Harvey Milk, publicly proclaimed Sipple a "gay hero" and said his act "will help break the stereotype of homosexuals." Gay liberation groups petitioned local media to give Sipple his due as a gay hero. Then columnist Herb Caen published the private side of the former Marine's story in the San Francisco Chronicle. Six other papers ran the column as well. After discovering her son's secret, Sipple's mother reacted to the knowledge of her son's sexual orientation by cutting off contact with him. Sipple's mother was reportedly harassed by her neighbors. When her son called to talk to her, she hung up on him. Sipple's split with his family never healed. When his mother died in 1979, his father refused contact with him."

[krb]

Looks like the media outed him as a homosexual and helped wreck his life:

Oliver Sipple.