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Liz Peek: Mr. Trump, make a magnanimous gesture and award McCain the Medal of Honor
Fox News ^ | Liz Peek

Posted on 08/29/2018 6:10:08 PM PDT by B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

President Trump should award John McCain, who died on Saturday, the Medal of Honor. The posthumous award would recognize the senator’s extraordinary heroism during his five years of captivity in North Vietnam, when he was tortured mercilessly, leaving him disabled for life. The compassionate and respectful gesture might also help to heal some deep wounds in the Republican Party. McCain was a Navy fighter pilot when his plane was shot down on a mission over the North Vietnamese capital of Hanoi in 1967. He fractured both arms and one leg when he was ejected from his jet and nearly drowned when he parachuted into a lake. North Vietnamese pulled the badly injured McCain from the lake and attacked him. One bayonetted him and crushed his shoulder with a rifle butt.

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To: LeoTDB69; B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

The “medal of goatse”, no man is more deserving.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=goatse

Fair warning. Do not look for it. You will need a new keyboard after you get done puking.


101 posted on 08/29/2018 7:10:10 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (TRUMP TRAIN !!! Get the hell out of the way if you are not on yet because we don't stop for idiots)
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

Three words...OFN!!!


102 posted on 08/29/2018 7:11:37 PM PDT by blu (WWG1WGA)
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To: TruthFactor

“I see a lot of piss in the future for McCain’s grave.”

Why wait for his grave? Aren’t they going to be driving his disgusting body from AZ to DC? Just stand on one of the many overpasses, unzip, and take care of business. The hearse may want to apply an extra layer of clearcoat before the trip.


103 posted on 08/29/2018 7:12:14 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

Liz Peak, whoever she is, has done a useful thing, by requiring comparison of McCain’s service record to those of actual CMOH recipients. He is not is their league, period. Maybe this will put a ceiling on the McCain worship.


104 posted on 08/29/2018 7:19:59 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: Secret Agent Man

NO.


105 posted on 08/29/2018 7:21:22 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

Well, maybe a medal for dying, but that’s about it.


106 posted on 08/29/2018 7:23:17 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: max americana

I agree...just bury him already


107 posted on 08/29/2018 7:25:14 PM PDT by SPRINK
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To: Secret Agent Man

This is an obscenity. An insult to everyone who has ever received one. Extraordinary heroism, not cooperating with your captors.


108 posted on 08/29/2018 7:27:37 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

Don’t make me vomit!!!


109 posted on 08/29/2018 7:27:55 PM PDT by MagUSNRET
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To: Secret Agent Man

+1


110 posted on 08/29/2018 7:27:59 PM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine. Even tho physically free, Tommy's not free yet. He's still facing charges.)
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To: Jed Eckert

James Stockdale was a huge booster of abortion on demand, said in an interview with Jim Lehrer that his daughters-in-law would be most displeased if he were pro-life.


111 posted on 08/29/2018 7:28:19 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: McGavin999
Does this woman have a clue what the Medal of Honor is?

You said it before I did. I think she sees it a prize you get rather than an honor you earn.

112 posted on 08/29/2018 7:29:34 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle
No, Liz, he should not. The common theme among the CMOH recipients is a complete disregard for their own wounds and lives, for the purpose of saving others.

For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Sgt. Levitow (then A1c.), U.S. Air Force, distinguished himself by exceptional heroism while assigned as a loadmaster aboard an AC-47 aircraft flying a night mission in support of Long Binh Army post. Sgt. Levitow's aircraft was struck by a hostile mortar round. The resulting explosion ripped a hole 2 feet in diameter through the wing and fragments made over 3,500 holes in the fuselage. All occupants of the cargo compartment were wounded and helplessly slammed against the floor and fuselage. The explosion tore an activated flare from the grasp of a crewmember who had been launching flares to provide illumination for Army ground troops engaged in combat. Sgt. Levitow, though stunned by the concussion of the blast and suffering from over 40 fragment wounds in the back and legs, staggered to his feet and turned to assist the man nearest to him who had been knocked down and was bleeding heavily. As he was moving his wounded comrade forward and away from the opened cargo compartment door, he saw the smoking flare ahead of him in the aisle. Realizing the danger involved and completely disregarding his own wounds, Sgt. Levitow started toward the burning flare. The aircraft was partially out of control and the flare was rolling wildly from side to side. Sgt. Levitow struggled forward despite the loss of blood from his many wounds and the partial loss of feeling in his right leg. Unable to grasp the rolling flare with his hands, he threw himself bodily upon the burning flare. Hugging the deadly device to his body, he dragged himself back to the rear of the aircraft and hurled the flare through the open cargo door. At that instant the flare separated and ignited in the air, but clear of the aircraft. Sgt. Levitow, by his selfless and heroic actions, saved the aircraft and its entire crew from certain death and destruction. Sgt. Levitow's gallantry, his profound concern for his fellowmen, at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of the U.S. Air Force and reflect great credit upon himself and the Armed Forces of his country.

http://www.cmohs.org/recipient-detail/3343/levitow-john-l.php

113 posted on 08/29/2018 7:29:44 PM PDT by AF_Blue ("This place has got everything." - Jake Blues)
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

I suggest Prom Queen instead.


114 posted on 08/29/2018 7:29:59 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: advertising guy

Ping!!
This thread will test your gag reflex!!


115 posted on 08/29/2018 7:30:27 PM PDT by MagUSNRET
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To: GailA

clinton and Obama must have forgot to award him one.


116 posted on 08/29/2018 7:30:49 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle
The posthumous award would recognize the senator’s extraordinary heroism during his five years of captivity in North Vietnam,

Getting captured is not the stuff of heroism.

when he was tortured mercilessly,

That is not the stuff of heroism.

leaving him disabled for life

In that case, we owe 10s of thousands of posthumous Medals Of Honor to those that suffered disabling injuries in wars. Again, not the stuff of heroism.

The compassionate and respectful gesture might also help to heal some deep wounds in the Republican Party.

Never mind that he was the cause of a lot of those wounds.

And, that was while a civilian, and the Medal of Honor is not awarded for civilian service. Again, not the stuff of heroism.

McCain was a Navy fighter pilot when his plane was shot down on a mission over the North Vietnamese capital of Hanoi in 1967.

Getting shot down is no the stuff of heroism. If that were the case, we better go back and award the MOH to the thousands of fliers who were also shot down in combat.

He0 fractured both arms and one leg when he was ejected from his jet and nearly drowned when he parachuted into a lake.

Unfortunate, but again, not the stuff of heroism.

North Vietnamese pulled the badly injured McCain from the lake and attacked him.

In that case, we owe millions of MOH to the millions of men in combat who were attacked during war and were injured. Again, not MOH worthy.

One bayonetted him and crushed his shoulder with a rifle butt.

Many thousands were also injured in Vietnam, and many others died. They are all heroes, but, only a "SELECT" few who actually performed acts of heroism during combat deserve and got the Medal of Honor. McCain did no such thing.

Liz needs to get her head examined and then explained what the Medal of Honor is about and who gets it.
117 posted on 08/29/2018 7:38:33 PM PDT by adorno
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle
Why stop at a Medal of Honor?

Build him a Pyramid.
And have the band play the Steve Martin King Tut song:

Now, when I die,
Now don't think I'm a nut,
Don't want no fancy funeral,
Just one like ole King Tut.

118 posted on 08/29/2018 7:42:59 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

If this were to happen, every other POW during the war should receive the same medal!


119 posted on 08/29/2018 7:50:39 PM PDT by longhorn too
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle
I'll be honest. I'm just here for the comments on this one.

I second that: I'll be honest. I'm just here for the comments on this one.

120 posted on 08/29/2018 7:51:52 PM PDT by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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