[Incorrigible]

 

"I believe in awards,'' he added, but not for "routine work.''

My father would have said the same thing. 

He died peacefully last month just before his 84th birthday. Only occasionally did he talk about the naval battles he was in during WWII in the South Pacific.

 

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Here’s a riddle:

What’s the difference between D. Brock Foster and John Kerry?

[sportutegrl]

The headline to this article seems to suggest John Kerry’s symbolic ‘throwing away’ his purple hearts. I’m sure that is not what this Vet intended to imply, but rather the editor’s choice of words.

[ASA Vet]

How does a USAF officer volunteer for Special Forces?

[ThePythonicCow]

He says he spent an hour piloting his prop plane overhead, dodging fire,

That reminds me of an Air Force major I worked with, while I was stationed in Tampa, Florida. He had spent the previous year flying over North Vietnam in a prop plane, the military equivalent of a Cessna 150, as a Forward Air Controller. His job was to spend hours a day, flying over enemy anti-aircraft sites, calling in the bombers to take them out.

He refused to drive on the freeways, always taking the surface streets. The freeway traffic made him nervous. I don't know; maybe he figured he'd already used up all his spare lives.

[PeterFinn]

My father would have said the same thing.

He died peacefully last month just before his 84th birthday. Only occasionally did he talk about the naval battles he was in during WWII in the South Pacific.

My sincere condolences. My own father who passed away nine years ago rarely if ever spoke of his time as a "guest" of His Majesty's Imperial Army in a POW camp from 1942-1945.

[ops33]

Let me see if I have them correctly.
Air Medal, Good Conduct Medal (Army decoration which shows the gentleman is former enlisted), Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, National Defense Medal, Korean Service Medal (?), Phillipine Liberation Medal. Did I get them right?