He served in the military no matter how good or bad he did. He deserves military honors. However, all but two of his decorations was about being a prisoner, not about successful combat. He had one decoration for dropping his bombs before going down and getting caught and the other one was about successfully operating an office CONUS. So, for all intents and purposes, all he ever was recognized for was getting caught and imprisoned. And that should get him lying in state? About the same as when Jophn Kerry accidentally shot himself in the behind and wrote his own purple heart. Real noteworthy.
rwood
I didn’t say he deserved to lay in state, but that all depends on the members of the swamp. After all, Claude Pepper lay in state in 1989.