REAL heroes/heroines hardly EVER "mention", much less BRAG about their medals.
when i was one of the students at the USAIS (popularly known as: the benning school for boys), one of our "distinguished speakers" was MAJ Roger Donolon (MOH, RVN), who said, "What i did was no big deal. at least a THOUSAND GIs did more than me." (emphasis: MINE)
also, i was (until his untimely passing) a close friend of Joseph O. Berry, late member-in-good-standing of Merrill's Marauders.
Joe NEVER even talked about hr war, except to tell us about the FUNNY things that happened to him. (for example the day that he sat down on a KRAIT. Joe said, "didn't know i could jump THAT high!!!")
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btw, i HAVE to tell you HOW Joe said that he was recruited into the Marauders.
Joe said:
"i was sitting under a tree in the pouring rain on this little-@ss, no place, island trying to eat my "ks" before the rain filled up my mess-kit & washed the slop away.
this fellow tapped me on the shoulder & said, "we are eating BIG STEAKS at our camp."
i asked him WHO i had to kill to get one of them steaks.
he said, "a whole bunch of Japs."
i said,"i can do that"
. LOTS of GIs became Marauders in JUST that way."
btw, Joe said that the STEAKS were REALLY GOOD, too.
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