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  • Stolen Valor, Tarnishing the Sacrifice

    01/26/2025 7:23:52 AM PST · by Rev M. Bresciani · 13 replies
    New American Prophet ^ | January 26, 2025 | Bradlee Dean
    When an individual poses wearing government-sanctioned medals, uniforms, or decorations that they are not entitled to wear, they degrade the honor and sacrifices of those rightly wearing the uniform. How much more concerning is it that those who are not genuine Christians claim to be so?
  • Joe Biden is using every trick in the book to wipe away the Big Stink from his tenure — but nothing is working

    01/05/2025 2:53:56 AM PST · by Libloather · 39 replies
    NY Post ^ | 1/04/25 | Michael Goodwin
    Breaking News Alert: Joe Biden to resign so Kamala Harris can become first female president. OK, it hasn’t happened yet, but don’t be shocked if the president makes the dramatic move to improve his awful legacy. He’s already using every trick in the book to try to wipe away the Big Stink from his tenure, but nothing is working. Following the election, Biden has spent two months trying to get people to forget the last four years. The effort hit a cringe-inducing low this week when he awarded prestigious civilian medals to the undeserving likes of Liz Cheney, Hillary Clinton,...
  • How the U.S. did in the Paris 2024 Olympics compared to previous summer games

    08/11/2024 8:38:26 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 43 replies
    CBS NEWS ^ | 08/11/2024 | Aliza Chadian
    The U.S., which became the first country to top 3,000 Olympic medals during the 2024 Summer Games, earned more medals in Paris than it did in Tokyo. Athletes from the U.S. took home 126 total medals this year, topping China (91), Britain (65) and France (64). China had been ahead in the race for gold throughout much of the games, but China and the U.S. both earned 40 apiece by the end of the games. In addition to 40 gold medals, the U.S. won 42 silver and 44 bronze medals. While the U.S. won the most medals, it isn't home...
  • John Kerry at the Coronation and Medals (Vanity)

    05/06/2023 9:15:49 AM PDT · by llevrok · 117 replies
    Sky News | 5/6/2023 | llevrok
    John Kerry attended the Coronation wearing medals. I thought he threw these over the White House fence
  • TODAY: Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony Honoring the United States Capitol Police & those who protected the Capitol on 1/6

    12/06/2022 2:16:37 AM PST · by RandFan · 37 replies
    twitter ^ | Chad Pergram
    @ChadPergram Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony Honoring the United States Capitol Police, the Washington D.C Metropolitan Police and those who protected the Capitol on 1/6 today
  • Officers Who Defended US Capitol on Jan. 6 Set to Receive Congressional Gold Medals

    12/06/2022 1:34:16 AM PST · by Libloather · 33 replies
    NBC Connecticut ^ | 12/06/22 | Mary Clare Jalonick, Farnoush Amiri, Lisa Mascaro
    Top House and Senate leaders will present law enforcement officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 with Congressional Gold Medals on Tuesday, awarding them Congress's highest honor nearly two years after they fought with former President Donald Trump’s supporters in a brutal and bloody attack. To recognize the hundreds of officers who were at the Capitol on Jan. 6, the medals will be placed in four locations - at U.S. Capitol Police headquarters, the Metropolitan Police Department, the Capitol and the Smithsonian Institution. President Joe Biden said when he signed the legislation last year that a medal...
  • OLYMPIC Medal Count by country

    08/09/2021 9:56:57 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 11 replies
    https://olympics.com ^ | AUGUST 9, 2021 | Staff
    SEE CHART AT LINK............. USA #1!........................
  • 60 ‘Black Hawk Down’ special ops troops to get upgraded medals

    07/01/2021 4:08:47 PM PDT · by PROCON · 30 replies
    americanmilitarynews.com ^ | July 1, 2021 | Ryan Morgan
    On Thursday, the U.S. Army announced it had approved upgrades to the medals 60 special operations troops received from 1993’s Operation Gothic Serpent in Somalia, also known as the Battle of Mogadishu or “Black Hawk Down.”In total, 58 special operations troops were upgraded to Silver Stars, the third-highest U.S. military decoration for valor in combat. Two more special operations troops were upgraded to Distinguished Flying Crosses, which recognizes acts of heroism or extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight.The Oct. 3, 1993 battle in Mogadishu, Somalia was part of a U.S. Army mission to capture Somali warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid....
  • Army won’t return medals to Green Beret Trump pardoned for killing suspected bomb maker

    03/18/2021 3:42:11 PM PDT · by PROCON · 42 replies
    americanmilitarynews.com ^ | March 18, 2021 | RYAN MORGAN
    The U.S. Army rejected an appeal to reinstate military service decorations and a Special Forces Tab for retired Maj. Matthew Golsteyn. Golsteyn faced murder charges for killing a suspected Taliban bomb-maker in 2010 but President Donald Trump pardoned him of the charge before his case went to trial.“The Army Board for Correction of Military Records, the service’s highest level of administrative review for personnel actions, has considered and denied Matthew Golsteyn’s application,” Army spokesman Lt. Col Gabriel J. Ramirez told American Military News on Thursday. “Privacy laws prevent the Army from disclosing specific information regarding the Board’s decision.”Golsteyn’s decorations included...
  • New Award Created for National Guard Troops Who Guarded Biden(with pics and suggestions)

    03/08/2021 9:58:00 AM PST · by rktman · 52 replies
    westernjournal.com ^ | 3/8/2021 | C Douglas Golden
    We don’t know that there was any threat that necessitated over 25,000 National Guard troops being in Washington, D.C., for Joseph Robinette Biden’s inauguration. We don’t know if there’s any threat that necessitates thousands of those troops being there now — or that any threat might exist in the near future that requires their presence in the nation’s capital. But they get a cool ribbon for being there! According to American Military News, those who served in the District of Columbia over the past few weeks will get either the District of Columbia National Guard Presidential Inauguration Support Ribbon or...
  • Dan Rather Medals for News and Guts

    Do a good job and report the truth, and you're probably going to catch hell. The challenge is being willing to do it anyway. — Dan Rather The Dan Rather Medals for News and Guts honor the process of journalism as much as the end product. They will be awarded to professional and collegiate journalists who go the extra yard — overcoming obstacles like stonewalling and harassment — to get the story that tells truth to power. The Medals are named for Dan Rather, the legendary reporter and anchor who went far afield from his Texan roots but never forgot...
  • Elizabeth Warren introduces bill to revoke Medals of Honor awarded for Wounded Knee Massacre

    11/27/2019 8:17:57 PM PST · by ConservativeStatement · 64 replies
    Fox News ^ | November 27, 2019 | Louis Casiano |
    Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., introduced a bill Wednesday that would posthumously revoke 20 Medals of Honor awarded to U.S. soldiers who slaughtered hundreds of Native Americans -- mostly women and children -- at the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890. The Remove the Stain Act accompanies a House version introduced earlier this year by Democrats Paul Cook of California, Denny Heck of Washington and Deb Haaland of New Mexico.
  • Trump orders Navy to rescind medals from lawyers who prosecuted SEAL Eddie Gallagher

    08/01/2019 11:19:00 AM PDT · by Baynative · 120 replies
    NY Post ^ | 7/31/2019 | Mark Moore
    ​President Trump said Wednesday that he would order the Navy to rescind medals given to military lawyers who prosecuted a ​former ​Navy SEAL the president supported during his court martial on murder charges. “The Prosecutors who lost the case against SEAL Eddie Gallagher (who I released from solitary confinement so he could fight his case properly), were ridiculously given a Navy Achievement Medal,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “I have directed the Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer & Chief of Naval Operations John Richardson to immediately withdraw and rescind the awards​,” Trump continued.
  • Trump Orders Navy to Rescind Medals Given to SEAL Eddie Gallagher's Prosecutors

    07/31/2019 4:01:01 PM PDT · by PROCON · 82 replies
    military.com ^ | July 31, 2019 | Hope Hodge Seck
    Following reports that the military prosecutors of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher are receiving Navy Achievement Medals -- despite failing to secure a conviction for Gallagher on murder charges -- President Donald Trump is stepping into the fray. On Tuesday afternoon, Trump took to Twitter, calling the medal awards "ridiculous" and demanding that they be rescinded. "Not only did [the prosecutors] lose the case, they had difficulty with respect to information that may have been obtained from opposing lawyers and for giving immunity in a totally incompetent fashion," Trump tweeted."I have directed the Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer & Chief...
  • Tokyo 2020 Olympic Medals to Be Made of Recycled Cell Phones and Laptops

    07/29/2019 5:24:46 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 32 replies
    Runner's World ^ | July 26, 2019 | Andrew Dawson
    As we hit exactly one year mark until the opening ceremony of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, the countdown has begun—and with that, the unveiling of the medals that the best athletes in the world will take home next summer. The medals boast the classic designs that fans see every four years as stipulated by the Interantional Olympic Committee, according to Tokyo 2020: Nike, the Greek goddess of victory; the name of the host city; and the five Olympic rings. What makes these medals special to Japan, though, is the public input and assistance that went into their creation. For...
  • Anyone heard of these guys?

    06/01/2019 6:33:52 AM PDT · by Oshkalaboomboom · 10 replies
    Myself ^ | 6/1/2019 | Oshkalaboomboom
    My wife was going through her late aunt's things and found a military pin for the 128th Overseas Batallion from Moose Jaw, Canada. Do any FReepers know the history of this unit? My wife's aunt was in the Home guard in WWII but it could have been her father's or a friend's from WWI.
  • Should Races Give Medals to Guide Runners for Visually-Impaired Participants?

    03/06/2019 7:09:25 PM PST · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 13 replies
    Runner's World ^ | March 5, 2019 | Jacob Meschke
    Back at the start of the year, an unexpected controversy arose regarding the London Marathon’s rules and regulations for guide runners who support visually-impaired participants in the race. For years, London’s official policy said guide runners could not receive a medal, despite having traversed the 26.2 miles with their partner like every other finisher. (In reality, volunteers at the finish line handed everyone a medal who wanted one, and a London Marathon official told Runner’s World UK they didn’t enforce the rule. But many were upset at the principle of the stance.) Runner’s World UK and other media outlets sourced...
  • General Wears his Medals Upside Down at State of the Union

    02/08/2019 11:13:31 AM PST · by Godebert · 99 replies
    YouTube ^ | 2/6/19 | Angry Cops
    National Guard general admits his ribbons were upside down during State of the Union (Air Force).
  • Over 100 2016 Olympic Medals Returned Due to Rust, Black Spots

    05/25/2017 3:49:50 PM PDT · by Libloather · 24 replies
    Bleacher Report ^ | 5/20/17 | MIKE CHIARI
    **SNIP** 2016 communications director Mario Andrada revealed the reasoning behind the medal problems. "The most common issue is that they were dropped or mishandled and the varnish has come off and they've rusted or gone black in the spot where they were damaged," he said. "The second thing is that a small few, about 10, had problems with the extreme cold." Andrada also called the issues "completely normal."
  • Former Congressman Under Fire for Tweeting That Joe Biden ‘Doesn’t Deserve’ Medal of Freedom

    01/13/2017 2:45:04 PM PST · by EveningStar · 55 replies
    People ^ | January 13, 2017 | Tierney McAfee
    Joe Biden is known for getting along with politicians on both sides of the aisle, but one former Republican congressman wasn’t happy about the vice president being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama on Thursday. Former Republican Rep. Tim Huelskamp of Kansas took to Twitter on Thursday night to voice his disapproval, tweeting: “For once, @JoeBiden and I agree: he doesn’t deserve this honor.”