[Forgotten Amendments]

I’ve asked this for many years ... never a response.

Didn’t he KNOWINGLY give Pat Tillman a Silver Star for heroism in combat that never happened?

If so, he spat on every Silver Star winner.

[Trump_the_Evil_Left]

True, but at least Pat Tillman was a good person and patriot.... we have had Silver Stars awarded to the likes of Lyndon Johnson (totally bogus award) and John Vichy Kerry (vastly exaggerated combat encounters).

During World War II, then-congressman Lyndon Johnson went on a single flight -- as an observer -- for which he was awarded the Silver Star by Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Only recently has it been admitted that the medal was a complete fraud, probably awarded by MacArthur to curry favor with a congressman. At the time, no one in the press bothered to investigate why Johnson was the only member of the crew to receive any sort of decoration for the 13-minute flight that never came under enemy fire -- and on which Johnson was merely an "observer." For the rest of his life Johnson got away with wearing what historian David Halberstam called "the least deserved and most proudly displayed Silver Star in military history." Johnson told harrowing tales of his uneventful 13-minute flight, boasting that the men had called him "Raider Johnson." One time he harangued a congressman on foreign aid, saying: "I know foreign aid is unpopular, but I didn't want to go to the Pacific in '41 after Pearl Harbor, but I did. I didn't want to let those Japs shoot at me ... but I did." The sole surviving member of the crew, Ret. Staff Sgt. Bob Marshall, U.S. Army, a gunner on the plane, disputed Johnson's story about being attacked by Japanese Zeros: "No way. No, that story was made up ... we had never seen a Zero. It was never attacked. There was nothing." (Today, the Democratic National Committee would be threatening to sue any TV station that aired Bob Marshall’s story.) With journalists writing about Democrats as if they’re writing Hollywood studio press releases for stars, it’s amazing Republicans ever win all elections at all.