Who is politicizing?
Those who imply that the Navy Cross is somehow insufficient an award for Peralta's action. Anytime valorous actions are compared and equal outcomes don't occur, those questioners are politicizing the event. It is true that politics play a part in the awarding of valor medals, but that is the way it is. There is no matrix for assigning valor decorations of this rank.
Sadly, the politicizing continues.