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Liz Peek: Mr. Trump, make a magnanimous gesture and award McCain the Medal of Honor
Fox News ^ | Liz Peek

Posted on 08/29/2018 6:10:08 PM PDT by B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

President Trump should award John McCain, who died on Saturday, the Medal of Honor. The posthumous award would recognize the senator’s extraordinary heroism during his five years of captivity in North Vietnam, when he was tortured mercilessly, leaving him disabled for life. The compassionate and respectful gesture might also help to heal some deep wounds in the Republican Party. McCain was a Navy fighter pilot when his plane was shot down on a mission over the North Vietnamese capital of Hanoi in 1967. He fractured both arms and one leg when he was ejected from his jet and nearly drowned when he parachuted into a lake. North Vietnamese pulled the badly injured McCain from the lake and attacked him. One bayonetted him and crushed his shoulder with a rifle butt.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

Sure, Liz ... right after President Trump makes another magnanimous gesture and awards the Medal of Honor to Hillary Clinton for dodging sniper fire in Bosnia.


21 posted on 08/29/2018 6:17:47 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them ... like Russians will.")
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To: LeoTDB69

“I’ll be honest. I’m just here for the comments on this one.”

I’ll take the seat next to yours and one bottomless popcorn bucket plz.

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I know, right?

I’m gonna need me a Big Gulp to go with the popcorn.


22 posted on 08/29/2018 6:17:48 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

John McCain did absolutely nothing to warrant a CMH


23 posted on 08/29/2018 6:17:57 PM PDT by Figment
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

No way in hell.
The Medal of Honor is for real heroes.


24 posted on 08/29/2018 6:18:06 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

These people are making it impossible not to speak ill of the dead.


25 posted on 08/29/2018 6:18:29 PM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

Don’t devalue the medal.


26 posted on 08/29/2018 6:19:11 PM PDT by jimfree (My18 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

If other presidents declined to offer the MOH to McCain, it seems there was a good reason.


27 posted on 08/29/2018 6:19:12 PM PDT by namvolunteer (Obama says the US is subservient to the UN and the Constitution does not apply. That is treason.9we)
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28 posted on 08/29/2018 6:19:14 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

This dingbat is par for the course there at Fox News.


29 posted on 08/29/2018 6:19:27 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them ... like Russians will.")
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle
Liz Peek: Mr. Trump, make a magnanimous gesture and award McCain the Medal of Honor

Vietnam has a Medal of Honor? Who knew?

30 posted on 08/29/2018 6:19:44 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America NEEDS Mob Rule, another European and Mid East World War and a universal Draft)
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

For?????


31 posted on 08/29/2018 6:20:47 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

Conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty.

Just Google medal of Honor requirements...

So the answer here is no.


32 posted on 08/29/2018 6:21:00 PM PDT by msrngtp2002 (Just my opinion.)
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle
I would rather give The Medal Of Honor to this guy:


33 posted on 08/29/2018 6:21:08 PM PDT by Artemis Webb (Maxine Waters for House Minority Leader!!)
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

http://www.cmohs.org/

McCain does not in any way come close to having earned a Medal of Honor. If we want to give a pretty award in his memory, I would suggest something he qualifies for. Perhaps they have a spare Nobel Prize. Obama and Gore have those, and McCain is every bit as qualified.


34 posted on 08/29/2018 6:22:33 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

Does Vietnam have a medal for fighter aces? He might qualify for one of those. How many American aircraft did he destroy?


35 posted on 08/29/2018 6:22:53 PM PDT by Spruce
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

Somebody ought to get the author the real story of Noname’s mistakes that got him injured and the real story about his captivity.

McCain had some credence with me for his service but he used it up very quickly when he voted against the service men left behind and against our veterans.


36 posted on 08/29/2018 6:22:54 PM PDT by JayGalt (You can't teach a donkey how to tap dance.)
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle
President Trump should award John McCain, who died on Saturday, the Medal of Honor.

John McCain has already received more medals per hour of flight, than anyone else in the military, for his service to the nation during the Vietnam war many years ago.

37 posted on 08/29/2018 6:23:29 PM PDT by olezip
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

How about a Grammy for the Hanoi Songbird instead?


38 posted on 08/29/2018 6:23:29 PM PDT by LeonardFMason (426)
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

If McLame is a hero because of his imprisonment as a POW, why isn’t this recommended for the rest of the POWs? BTW, how many of his fellow POWs attended the funeral or WERE they invited? McLame certainly DID NOT have an outstanding military career nor a legislative career as a Republican. I believe McLame was once censured by the Arizona Republican Party. Liberals have already bastardized our traditions and should not be allowed to politicize the MOH.


39 posted on 08/29/2018 6:23:36 PM PDT by Dapper 26
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To: tennmountainman

Related to your comment, I see a lot of piss in the future for McCain’s grave.


40 posted on 08/29/2018 6:24:45 PM PDT by TruthFactor (Hang em', Hang em' High.)
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