For the longest time the Clinton administration resisted awarding CIBs and combat patches to soldiers in Somalia because Clinton wanted to preserve the illusion that our soldiers weren’t engaging in combat...at least until his pollsters discovered there was much to lose by not presenting the MOH to the families of Gary Gordon and Randy Shughart.
Clinton awarded those MOH to the families of Gary Gordon and Randy Shughart on the morning of Jackie Onassis’s funeral, they were made invisible.
Here are your medals, now I have something really important to do.