[The KG9 Kid]

Meanwhile here on FR, thousands and thousands of replies have been made to daily 'That Contrail Was A Chinese Missile!' threads, yet I only counted three threads about SSgt. Salvatore Giunta's Tuesday ceremony where he was awarded the Medal of Honor.

The most active Giunta thread had 17 replies.

[jazusamo]

I hear you, and the coverage in the enemedia was pathetic.

[rockvillem]

God bless SSgt. Giunta. It bothered me to see Obama place that medal - given his upbringing (and my proximity in age), I know that there is no way he dreamed about being that recipient, unlike the vast majority of the rest of us around his age.

It’s probably not a fair comparison (living vs. posthumous) but the contrast between Obama’s presentation and Bush’s one to the family of Michael Monsoor (where Bush choked up, realizing the magnitude of the sacrifice/accomplishment) . . .

[Pan_Yan]

... I only counted three threads about SSgt. Salvatore Giunta's Tuesday ceremony where he was awarded the Medal of Honor.

37 replies (I put it on Front Page News)

Don't judge your fellow FReepers too harshly. These things are cyclic. During the run up to the midterm elections very few people responded to any threads about foreign affairs. When the election news dies down they will pay more attention to Afghanistan, North Korea, etc. In a lot of ways I think there is a herd, pop culture mentality here like everywhere else. It's a conservative, herd, pop culture mentality, but a herd none the less.

I usually post foreign affairs articles that interest me and don't care much who responds. I just hope people have read them so they aren't surprised when little dark corners of the world become big news. If I wanted 'hits' (and I've done it on occasion just to watch the results) I'd post a Palin thread or a thread about the latest drunk guy in Florida who was arrested naked someplace bizarre. But lack of replies doesn't necessarily mean no one is reading the article. I miss the 'views' stat that we had before the last big server crash.

[red irish]

my husband and I were both wondering what the truth really was about that contrail story?

[tiki]

I think it was probably because there was nothing controversial about the Giunta’s threads. I read them, I watched him get his medal, I cried, I was proud to be an American and proud that he accepted the medal in what appeared to be pure humility.

[VeniVidiVici]

Meanwhile here on FR, thousands and thousands of replies have been made to daily 'That Contrail Was A Chinese Missile!' threads, yet I only counted three threads about SSgt. Salvatore Giunta's Tuesday ceremony where he was awarded the Medal of Honor. The most active Giunta thread had 17 replies.

Actually, there were about 8 threads and probably over 200 replies with one thread I saw had 38 replies.

A hundred aircraft in and around LA and there was one contrail. Yeah, buddy.