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To: art_rocks
Having only been awarded a Good Conduct Medal during my stellar military "career" this may be a stupid,but....

...how could this possibly have taken so long?

6 posted on 02/09/2007 2:32:06 PM PST by Gay State Conservative ("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Reading the article, it was apparently McCain that finally got him the medal.


11 posted on 02/09/2007 2:34:46 PM PST by Strategerist
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To: Gay State Conservative

"Having only been awarded a Good Conduct Medal . . ."

Not "only." You did your job and ya did good.


20 posted on 02/09/2007 2:47:10 PM PST by leadpenny
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To: Gay State Conservative
Having only been awarded a Good Conduct Medal during my stellar military "career" this may be a stupid,but.... ...how could this possibly have taken so long?

'cause your name ain't KERRY!

75 posted on 02/12/2007 2:55:14 PM PST by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Having only been awarded a Good Conduct Medal during my stellar military "career" this may be a stupid,but.... ...how could this possibly have taken so long?

Usually? When a previous award is upgraded to the MoH, and after the witnesses have left military service, there's trouble tracking them down for their statements.

77 posted on 02/14/2007 1:36:33 PM PST by archy (Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])
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