[goldstategop]

Sgt. Rafael Peralta deserves the Medal Of Honor. The cowardice of our government in refusing to give a great American hero his due frosts me!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[ConorMacNessa]

Do you have the particulars of what he did to be awarded the Medal? Not disparaging him, just want to know.

[Cicero]

“Peralta instead will be posthumously awarded the nation’s second-highest award for valor in combat, the Navy Cross, the military announced Tuesday.”

I’m not sure what the basis was for this decision, but the bar for winning the Medal of Honor is rightly set very high. Winning the Navy Cross is a great honor.

[mabelkitty]

This is disgusting.
Who, in particular, is holding him up?
This sounds like politics and the person should be exposed.

[LeoWindhorse]

The short and stocky Marine nicknamed “Rafa” had deployed to Japan with 1,000 other Marines with the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, but the Kane’ohe Bay unit was rerouted to Iraq and found itself in the thick of fierce house-to-house fighting in Operation Al Fajr, one of the biggest firefights in Iraq.

Shot in the head and chest as he and other Hawai’i Marines cleared a house, Peralta, 25, had the presence of mind to grab the yellow-colored Iraqi grenade that bounced into the room, fellow Marines say.

He was killed instantly by the blast. Reynolds, the Alpha Company Marine who was in the same room that day, figures Peralta saved as many as five Marines.

He was not only a hero, but an immigrant hero who got his citizenship while in uniform, loved what America and the Corps stood for, and proved it with his life, say those who knew him.

from :
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080918/NEWS01/809180377/1001

1/3 is back in the AO at this time . I have alerted them to this news . They do not like it at all....

[Centurion2000]

Sgt. Rafael Peralta deserves the Medal Of Honor. The cowardice of our government in refusing to give a great American hero his due frosts me!

The Navy Cross is the second highest award for bravery. Nothing shameful about being awarded that.

[cookcounty]

Does anybody out there know why there are so very few medal-winners in this war compared with earlier wars. It always strikes me as odd.

[Peacekeeper357]

If he did not meet the standers for the Medal of Honor, I would like to see how they justified awarding the Navy Cross.

[Non-Sequitur]

Sgt. Rafael Peralta deserves the Medal Of Honor. The cowardice of our government in refusing to give a great American hero his due frosts me!

The government is awarding him the Navy Cross, no small affair. They believe they are giving him his due. Why do you believe they are not?