Was the Medal of Honor tarnished?

Question

Last week, when Mag.Bruce P. Crandall, Air Cavalry and Viet Nam Veteran, and the man Mel Gibson's charachter in "We Were Soldiers" is based on, recieved his long overdue Medal of Honor, was the meaning somewhat tarnished because the coward and deserter george bush presented it to him?

To whoever said I had nerve to post this is right. People with nerve and patriotism stand up to leaders who fall short of fulfilling their oath of office. Cowards follow blindly behind. Which catigory do you fall into?

Answer 1

Good for you Rick..Stand up America! It’s time to support the good men and women of the United States Military! The time is long overdue for a radical protest against the filth and corruption that has infested the United States Government. This is about the lies of 911, the illegal war in Iraq and bringing our troops home to their loved ones. If you are a true American Patriot you will join in and become a part of this wonderful event that is about to take place.

The U.S. antiwar movement and the impeachment movement are becoming entwined, just in time for the March 17 rally at the Pentagon. Here’s the best part! You don’t have to travel all the way to D.C. to perform your Patriotic Duty to America. There will be hundreds of Anti-War protest happening across the Nation. Los Angles is having a massive protest Saturday, March 17th 2007 at Noon. Other locations include...

Phoenix, Arizona Monday, March 19th 11:30 am
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These are just a few of the locations....
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I support our troops 100% and it’s time to bring them home.

As Americans it is time to make our stand to protect the Constitution and Fundamentals of what this Great Country was founded on.

Answer 2

First, the President is not a deserter. He received an honorable discharge. Why must you leftists constantly lie?

Second, the Medal of Honor can never be tarnished, no matter what. The courageous men who have been awarded the MoH have endowed it with an indelible patina of bravery, honor, and sacrifice by the blood they have shed for their country.

Answer 3

He's the only Commander in Chief we have enough, so what to do? Get out and vote in '08. We either get a man of honor or another gerbil like Bush.

Answer 4

Not at all. It would be an honor for any vet to recieve it from the President. What tarnished it is that he had to wait 35 years. What is also tarnished is the way you people degrade our President. Lucky, for you, that you live here, if it was in Iraq or some other nasty place, you would be dragged through the streets.

Answer 5

I hate to say that-but it seems some meaning is gone after 40 years. More like a photo op-which is terribly sad. You have to wonder if it was more of a photo opportunity for Bush than anything.

Remember Bush in his flight suit with the Mission Accompliched banner?

Answer 6

The medal has nothing to do with the President.
Damn you've got a lot of nerve to post that question...

Answer 7

rick,

The President served his country honorably. clinton did not...kerry certainly did not.

These men were presented a citation they earned and richly deserved. They did not put themselves in for the citation, like others (kerry who wrote himself up for a Purple Heart, not once, but TWICE), who by doing so diminished the value of that award for all who earned it.

You seem to be quite concerned about how men serve their country...what have YOU done for your country?

Answer 8

YES

The deserter known as, "President George W. Bush" shouldn't be given the right to present that. I think it should be up to the secretary of the military branch the individual served/serves in.

President GWB was a butter bar (2nd Lt.) in the Texas ANG. When called to do his dutie, as a fighter pilot, in Vietnam, he went AWOL for over a year. All charges were dropped because of his father who was, at that time, a high ranking individual in the CIA.

Bush is a coward who, in my opinion, doesn't even deserve to stand in the same are as a soldier of the United States. He's a disgrace to myself and my other fellow soldiers who serve bravely. No AWOL butter bar should ever act like he knows more about war than a 4-star General. The Generals advised him and he blew them off. He's a very disrespectful person who will meet justice like a brick wall at 100 m.p.h.

Answer 9

Your the only Coward I see

Answer 10

What an uninformed fool you are...

I thought you might be interested in reading Ben Stein's response to President Bush's State of The Union speech this week. It says exactly what I think.
SKIPPER WALLACE

The Lynching of the President
By Ben Stein < mailto:[e-mail] >
Published 1/25/2007 1:49:40 AM

So there I was, lying in my bed in Malibu with my dogs, watching Mr. Bush's State of the Union speech. I thought it was darned good. Realistic, gracious, modest, sensible. I happen to think we should get out of Iraq yesterday, but I thought Mr Bush put forward his case well. And Congress responded graciously and generously on both sides of the aisle.

Then, whaam, as soon as the speech was over, ABC was bashing him, telling us how pathetic he was, how irrelevant he was, how weak he was, how unrealistic he was.

Right after that, Jim Webb gave a very short speech biting Bush's head off -- but not making any concrete proposals about anything. No network person mentioned how simple minded and unrealistic he was.

Then, tonight, the next night, I walked into the kitchen where my wife had left the radio going with NPR to amuse the cats. NPR was having a call-in show talking about the State of the Union. The first speaker I heard was a country music legend, Merle Haggard, who said he had never seen things so bad in this country. Then a legion of anonymous callers chimed in with similar thoughts.

And suddenly it hit me. The media is staging a coup against Mr. Bush. They cannot impeach him because he hasn't done anything illegal. But they can endlessly tell us what a loser he is and how out of touch he is (and I mean ENDLESSLY) and how he's just a vestigial organ on the body politic right now.

The media is doing what it can to basically oust Mr. Bush while still leaving him alive and well in the White House. It's a sort of neutron bomb of media that seeks to kill him while leaving the White House standing (for their favorite unknown, Barack Obama, to occupy).

How dare NPR ask a country singer who hates Bush to spew venom at Bush? Merle Haggard is a truly great singer and musician, but he's just one old guy. There are plenty of country singers who love Bush and would campaign for him right now. And in what sense is Mr Haggard an expert on the state of the union?

The truth is that we are in a huge economic boom. We are coming off a mammoth real estate explosion that put the most Americans in history in their own homes. We have totally full employment. After decades of stagnation, real wages are rising. The nation is wealthier than it has ever been (although this is very unevenly distributed). Opportunities for subsidized higher education are better than they have ever been.

Most important of all, who would have ever been rash enough on September 12, 2001 to say there would not be one major or even minor successful terrorist incident against the U.S. Homeland in over five years? Who would have thought we would escape without more massive terror? But we have, and it is a foolhardy person who would say that's an accident. Bush may not have done it by himself, but he had something to do with it.

True, we are mired in a war without end, costing us far too may great young and old Americans and too many limbs and wrecked families and vastly too much money. But we all know we're getting out soon. It was a huge mistake, but I'd like to see a President who did not make immense mistakes. Compared with the mistakes of Truman and FDR and Kennedy, Iraq is a mistake, but not worse than theirs.

True, we have virtually no federal oversight of corporate looting and executive suite misconduct, but we didn't have any under Clinton either. The rich get away with murder. That's what happens in the real world. Bush is to blame, but all politicians cater to the rich, and Hillary will and Barack Obama will, too. It's nauseating and I fight it constantly, but that's life.

My point: let's be aware that Bush has presided over a lot of success in addition to substantial failure. My second point: no one elected the media to anything. If we let them lynch the man we elected as President we are throwing out the Constitution with the war in Iraq. In the studios and newsrooms, there is a lynch mob at work. Let's see it for what it is. We have a good man who has made mistakes in the Oval Office. He's the only President we have, and I trust him a lot more than I trust unelected princes of the newsroom.