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To: Polybius
Hogwash. Why did you fail to mention that Walkers' Medal was restored by Carter if you aren't lobbying? Posting other citations shows that you are being disingenuous in your denial. How about taking up the cause of a real outrage and getting many if not all of Chesty Pullers' five Navy Crosses upgraded to Medals of Honor.
75 posted on 04/12/2003 10:50:03 AM PDT by SMEDLEYBUTLER
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To: SMEDLEYBUTLER
Hogwash. Why did you fail to mention that Walkers' Medal was restored by Carter if you aren't lobbying? Posting other citations shows that you are being disingenuous in your denial. How about taking up the cause of a real outrage and getting many if not all of Chesty Pullers' five Navy Crosses upgraded to Medals of Honor.

Lobbying for what, Smedley?

To get Pfc. Lynch a Medal of Honor? Or not?

To get Mary Walker's Medal of Honor downgraded to a Meritorious Service Medal? Or not?

To get Douglas MacArthur's Medal of Honor for being caught with his pants down after Pearl Harbor revoked? Or not?

Lobbying Congressional politicians to not play politics with military honor is an exercise in futility because the vast majority of Congressional politicians will put political expediency before military honor every time.

You may get a Congressman to champion the upgrade of an award if they believe that they can make political hay out of it but you will never get Congress to advocate the downgrade of an award if they believe it will have negative political fallout.

Only if you believe otherwise is "lobbying" for such things anything more than an utter waste of time.

So, I'm at a complete loss in trying to figure out just what, exactly, you believe I am "lobbying" for.

Mary Walker's so-called "Medal of Honor" was legitimately revoked in 1917. That is a historical fact.

Just because Jimmy Carter decided that it would be good 1970's politics to railroad it's restoration does not mean that Mary Walker actually earned the equivalent of a modern-day Medal of Honor. The feminist claim that Mary Walker "earned America's highest award" is simply Politically Correct historical revisionism that was compounded by Jimmy Carter's action.

Mary Walker simply earned an award that, at the time that it was awarded to her, had a meaning that ranged the entire spectrum from exceptional gallantry in combat to the Civil War version of the "Alive in '65 Gedunk Medal" to, in her particular case, the Meritorious Service Medal for meritorious non-combat service.

From your hostile reaction to my historical posts, I am sure that you have a dog in some fight on this topic. I just don't see what your dog is or even what your fight is.

88 posted on 04/12/2003 11:42:30 AM PDT by Polybius
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