When I was stationed in Monterey in 1985 I got to sit down talk with General Doolittle at his home in Carmel. We talked about the raid (of course)WWII and his degrees. He showed us a picture he had hanging on his wall of President Reagan awarding him his fourth star earlier in 1985.
A pretty huge moment in the life of a young buck sergeant.
It’s pretty surprising about some of the people you get to meet. While LTG Frank Sackton didn’t have a very illustrious career, he did attend the first H-bomb detonation at Eniwetok. A wild and wacky experience. He just passed away this past February, at 97.
A lot of people were enraged here when TSA staff at Sky Harbor prevented MoH recipient and WWII US Marine Fighter Ace Joe Foss from boarding a plane to give a speech to cadets at West Point, because he had his Medal of Honor with him, and it was made of metal and had pointy edges, that the TSA thought he might use it to hijack the plane. They had never seen a MoH, and had no idea what it was.