[ken5050]

As a former Marine, it's nice to know that you don't have to win the MOH posthumously. During the Iraqi War, I'd read the citations for the Navy Cross, and for the life of me, I couldn't understand why they weren't for the MoH, other than they had survived the action.

I'm also opposed to the trend in recent years of upgrading awards to the Medal for actions duirn WW II, Korea, and VietNam. I don't like this selective review, long after the fact.

[Stonewall Jackson]

I agree with you for the most part about the retroactive Medals. About the only exceptions I approve of are Teddy Roosevelt’s (denied by Congress because they didn’t like him), helicopter pilots Bruce Crandall and Ed Freeman were overlooked because of their unit structure (they were nominated but the nominations couldn’t move up the chain of command), and there was one more (I want to say from Vietnam, but it might have been Korea) where the paperwork was actually misfiled but located just a few years ago during the transfer of all Army personnel files to their new home at Fort Knox.