No greater honor (Medal of Honor winners)

The Washington Times ^ | Nov. 11, 2003 | Peter Collier

[Madstrider]

The following accounts of Medal of Honor winners are based on the new book "Medal of Honor," by Peter Collier, published by Artisan in collaboration with the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation.

A devout Seventh-day Adventist, Desmond Doss wanted to serve his country but chose not to bear arms, so he joined the Army's Medical Corps. The Lynchburg, Va., native served with the 77th Division on Guam and Leyte in 1944. On Okinawa, in the late spring of 1945, his battalion was assaulting a jagged escarpment rising up 400 feet whose summit was commanded by well-entrenched Japanese forces.

[stylin19a]

Not nice to add to the headline. Winner is wrong term. These are Medal Of Honor RECIPIENTS...!

[RedBloodedAmerican]

No Kerry or Gore?

Maybe we should create a Treason Medal. Name it after the Rockefellers.

[Gunrunner2]

>>Joseph J. Foss. . .Capt. Foss shot down 23 Japanese planes and was himself shot down four times during the five-week battle. In January 1943, he led a group of 12 American planes against a superior force of Japanese bombers and fighter escorts. His squadron took down four enemy Zeros — Capt. Foss himself accounting for three of them — and forced the Japanese to turn back without dropping a bomb. By the time he returned to the United States in the spring of 1943, Capt. Foss had 26 confirmed kills, equaling Eddie Rickenbacker's World War I record.
Mr. Foss died Jan. 11 in Scottsdale, Ariz. <<

Died, sadly, not long after he was jacked up by brain-dead TSA bubba's for carrying his MOH thropugh an airport metal detector. He was on his way to lecture West Point cadets. Was told the MOH had sharp points and might be used as a weapon.