A true American Hero
Posted on 03/29/2005 9:36:00 PM PST by RWR8189
A true American Hero
And unlike Kerry, he actually earned his medal.
bump and here's another person I'd nominate for the medal...
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2004/11/godspeed_sergea.html
CMOH BUMP!
Kerry, who's he? :-)
Indeed. We are blessed to have such men among us.
A minor correction, if I may - the image in the first post is the Navy version of the MOH. This is the medal posthumously awarded to Sgt. Smith:
March 29, 2005
WASHINGTON (Army News Service, March 29, 2005) -- When Sgt. 1st Class Paul Smith’s family receives his Medal of Honor, they will receive a new item that will be given to all future recipients of the medal – a Medal of Honor flag.
The flag consists of a field of blue, with 13 stars arranged in the same formation that the stars appear on the Medal of Honor ribbon. It is fringed with gold.
The design was the brainchild of Sarah LeClerc of the U.S. Army Institute of Heraldry. A panel of eight members made of representatives from each Service (Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard), one Office of Secretary Defense staff, one historian and one representative from the Medal of Honor Society was formed to review and evaluate all designs submitted and make a final recommendation to the Principal Deputy to the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness.
“Several of us in the Creative Section worked on the design,” LeClerc said. “I wanted to the simplicity of the 13 stars on a blue field.”
LeClerc said her initial design also contained a canton, similar to the canton containing the stars on the U.S. national flag. On her original design, the canton of red and white stripes, contained the word “valor” as it appears on the Medal of Honor. The committee asked if the canton could be removed.
“They felt the design was better without the canton. We said that as it is an Army design, we can change it however you want, and so we removed it,” said Pam Madigan an industrial specialist with the Institute of Heraldry.
A law created in October 2002, called for the creation of the flag, and the institute solicited designs via an announcement in the Federal Registry, Madigan said.
“It didn’t take long for the committee to make a selection. The meeting only lasted four hours, and they asked me if we could remove the canton. They decided to go with Sarah’s ribbon design, with gold fringe,” Madigan said.
For more information on Sgt. 1st Class Paul Smith and his Medal of Honor, see MOH for an image of the flag.
Thank God for this hero!
How about 2nd. Lt. Brian Chintosh...(I hope I spelled his name correctly)?
Yep... there are a lot of mighty men of valor.
Yes. A true hero. God bless and keep his family.
Yes, we salute you.
Florida could use a male hero about now.
"Sergeant Smith's "extraordinary heroism and uncommon valor without regard to his own life in order to save others are in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service," a draft of the medal citation says."
Rest in God's arms..brave warrior..I am humbled by your service and valor.
My God, that such men tread this earth!
Birgit Smith sits with her children David, 10, and Jessica, 18, at her home in Holiday after learning her husband will receive the Medal of Honor.
Sgt. Paul Smith (right).
Where does strengths like these, exhibited from both the family and the serviceman, come from???
GOD BLESS OUR MILITARY AND SGT PAUL SMITH
That is a beautiful picture of a strong family I must say. God bless all of them.
Amen and amen!
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