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 senators 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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I wish the media would move on to another subject already — like Hillary’s emails.
I wish the media would move on to another subject already like Hillarys emails.
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Why do you think the media is so desperately churning out nonsense stories in as loud a manner as possible at this time?
How about just a thank you note on one of those yellow POSTIT things?
If McCain was worthy of the CMH he would have been awarded it long ago. Without doubt he is a warrior hero of honor and a piss poor pilot. I am in awe of McCain the pilot and honorable warrior but that is a different subject. Yes, the North Vietnamese broke him. You can break any man and this should not be a stain on his record. He came back from captivity a broken man and this explains what McCain was.
McCain the politician is to be abhorred.
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I had the privilege to speak to one of the Helicopter Pilots that was portrayed in the movie, “We were Soldiers Once and Young” He did receive the CMH. I asked him why he did what he did, taking ammo in and wounded out. He did not have to do this and actually ignored orders. His answer was simple, he said, “I took those boys in and needed to take them out.”
It was a reunion of old chopper pilots of which my dad was one. He wore his CMH but was actually rather embarrassed about it. He only did it because all the other old war dogs insisted he do so.
Eggxactly!
No! Hell no! There is a reason he his called NO Name by the military!
He enjoyed his stolen valor for too many years!
Awards like this should not be given out just to make peace with politicians. It’s a slap in the face to real military heroes.
Who respects the Nobel Peace Prize anymore?
The Medal of Honor means something really special! You don't just give it out for the hell of it!
Medal of Honor for WHAT!?
Yeah....no thanks.
Her entire column was just a big kick to a hornet’s nest. She knows exactly the responses she will get and she welcomes them.
Award him the Nobel Peace Prize, it’s already a joke
uh......NO
He has already planned to the smallest detail, a 5 day tribute to himself.
#MeToo
True that. They made a good living pretending to be Conservative, as long as Conservatives didn’t have any power to actually implement their ideas. Sorta like the 1960’s and 70’s era Republicans who were happy being a massive minority in Congress.
There is just one, small, problem.
He did NOTHING 'heroic' to JUSTIFY being 'given' the MOH.
It would be BLASPHEMY to give it out like a Participation Trophy at a T-ball game.
This deep state crap has been going on for a long time.I think the bastards have been playing the people for decades and decades.
Give TI a MOH for his exemplary HEROISM in stating it!!
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