Funny how this didn't get more coverage from the MSM?

Question

In presenting the Silver Star to Chiarini, Marine Brig. Gen. David H. Berger said Chiarini displayed a type of courage virtually impossible for people on the sidelines of war to understand.

“He reacted the way he did for one simple reason: to take care of the Marine at his right and the Marine to his left. Simple as that. … He would not let his fellow warriors down. He used himself to protect his comrades. We can not ask anything more.”

Chiarini’s commanding officer, Lt. Colonel Andrew Smith, thanked Chiarini’s attending four grandparents, three sisters — one of whom served in Iraq with Army — and his parents, Linda and Thomas Chiarini, for raising and loving such a noble man. And thanks to others like him, he said, who “look down the muzzle of the enemy because their nation asks them to.”

http://www.projo.com/news/content/Silver_Star_10-23-07_8M7J786.354e08a.html

main stream media, msm

Answer 1

Just goes to show how bias our Main Stream Media has gotten since WWII, they would rather show the short comings of a few than the loving deeds that are done by the majority...

Answer 2

Maybe because it was his third tour of duty.. Which indicates that our TROOPS do support the war efforts of our Commander in Chief? Maybe? I don't know could it be liberal press is suppressing this?

On a day when the exploits of a baseball team were being celebrated in heroic terms, a Marine Corps brigadier general, his own chest clinking with medals, pinned the Silver Star, the nation’s third-highest award given for bravery, onto the uniform of Joshua Chiarini.

In so doing, Chiarini, who enlisted in the Navy in 2000 three months after graduating from Coventry High School, joined the ranks of Douglas MacArthur, Chuck Yeager, George Patton, Oliver North and H. Norman Schwarzkopf, all of whom earned the same distinction for extraordinary heroism.

“I was just doing my job is all,” Chiarini said prior to the ceremony, in between accepting congratulations from U.S. senators and a governor. “It was a pretty exciting day.”

Feb. 10, 2006, found Chiarini in a Marine convoy of four Humvees outside the village of Hit in Al Anbar Province, one of the most violent regions in Iraq.

It was Chiarini’s third tour of duty with the 1st Platoon, 2nd Marine Division. He had seen plenty of firefights, treated more than 100 injured Marines, and been spared any of them dying in his hands. That could not be said, however, of some of the civilians he had treated who had been caught in the middle of gun battles.

Answer 3

showing that the military are doing their job heroicly wuld be bad news for the liberals that try to portrait the iraq war as lost. people are tired of war but they are also tired of being told that ameria is nothing but a bully. in a sense, the liberals are bullying people into hating the war and people are getting tired of it. both the management of the war and the liberal rants

Answer 4

I did see this on the news...maybe it was just where I live....I can't believe that tewiba...why is this newsworthy? Hello?

Answer 5

I don't understand why you think this is newsworthy.

Do you think that every presentation of every medal should get news time?

Why was this award something everyone needs to know; how did that soldier's getting an award effect the lives of citizens?

Answer 6

because its a truly good thing to put on the news and shows the military in a good light instead of bad so they just tossed it aside im sure

Answer 7

Proves that the Main Stream Media are anti-military and positive news are not on their agenda!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 8

Did he join for the publicity??

Answer 9

whos msm.