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To: acapesket

Should be illegal to do so. With a stiff sentence.


5 posted on 12/15/2004 7:34:58 PM PST by demecleze
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To: demecleze
It is illegal to purchase a Medal of Honor here in the US, but Britain and Canada have not adopted similar laws.

A few months ago, I read about another Victoria Cross that was auctioned off. It had been awarded to an airman whose Lancaster bomber had been hit over Germany, setting one of its engines on fire. He crawled out onto the wing (while they were still a couple of miles up) with a fire extinguisher and tried to douse the flames. Unfortunately, a German fighter began attacking them and he was forced to jump off the wing to avoid the machinegun fire. The rest of the crew then bailed out of the crippled bomber, and survived the war in a POW camp.

9 posted on 12/15/2004 8:15:20 PM PST by Stonewall Jackson (Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. - John Adams)
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