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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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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: funerally; jameshensley; johnmccain; keatingfive; mccain; medalofhonor; moh; songbird; strawberries; yougottabekidding
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To: MuttTheHoople

I wish the media would move on to another subject already — like Hillary’s emails.


141 posted on 08/29/2018 10:47:53 PM PDT by KittyKares (Drain the Swamp)
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To: KittyKares

I wish the media would move on to another subject already — like Hillary’s 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?


142 posted on 08/29/2018 10:49:30 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: JudyinCanada

How about just a thank you note on one of those yellow POSTIT things?


143 posted on 08/29/2018 10:59:06 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

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.

ps
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.


144 posted on 08/29/2018 11:44:42 PM PDT by cpdiii (Cane Cutter, Deckhand,Roughneck, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist: THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

145 posted on 08/30/2018 12:33:12 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: BobL

Eggxactly!


146 posted on 08/30/2018 12:51:54 AM PDT by Dexter Morgan (Everyone hides who they are.)
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

No! Hell no! There is a reason he his called NO Name by the military!
He enjoyed his stolen valor for too many years!


147 posted on 08/30/2018 1:19:19 AM PDT by stilloftyhenight ("Victorious warriors win first, thenSes go to war." Sun Tzu)
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

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?


148 posted on 08/30/2018 1:41:48 AM PDT by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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Ummm HELL NO!

The Medal of Honor means something really special! You don't just give it out for the hell of it!

149 posted on 08/30/2018 1:46:53 AM PDT by KavMan
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

Medal of Honor for WHAT!?


150 posted on 08/30/2018 2:17:27 AM PDT by cranked
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

Yeah....no thanks.


151 posted on 08/30/2018 2:54:31 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

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.


152 posted on 08/30/2018 2:56:41 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

Award him the Nobel Peace Prize, it’s already a joke


153 posted on 08/30/2018 3:15:24 AM PDT by stockpirate (TYRANNY IS THY NAME REBELLION IS OUR ANSWER. HANG THEM ALL!)
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

uh......NO


154 posted on 08/30/2018 3:16:14 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

He has already planned to the smallest detail, a 5 day tribute to himself.


155 posted on 08/30/2018 3:18:43 AM PDT by suekas
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

#MeToo


156 posted on 08/30/2018 3:44:59 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (They hated Reagan too ! TRUMP TOUGH - AMERICA STRONG)
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To: HANG THE EXPENSE

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.


157 posted on 08/30/2018 4:00:27 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (GOP- 65 House and 12 Senate seat pickups in November)
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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, when he was tortured mercilessly, leaving him disabled for life.

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.

158 posted on 08/30/2018 4:11:05 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: MuttTheHoople

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.


159 posted on 08/30/2018 4:16:22 AM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

The only reason they pretend to like him now is because he was a RINO who hated Trump.

Give TI a MOH for his exemplary HEROISM in stating it!!

160 posted on 08/30/2018 4:20:39 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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