Posted on 03/18/2014 5:22:19 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
...Obama will correct a historical act of discrimination next month when he awards the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest commendation for combat valor, to a group of Hispanic, Jewish and African-American veterans who were passed over because of their racial or ethnic backgrounds.
The unusual presentation will culminate a 12-year Pentagon review ordered by Congress into past discrimination in the ranks and will hold a particular poignancy when conducted by the nation’s first African-American president....
(Excerpt) Read more at m.washingtonpost.com ...
Race card? You bet he''ll play it.....
The ceremony is taking place today. Meanwhile, Iran keeps working on nukes, people keep losing jobs, and gas and food prices continue to soar.
But at least BambI has the love and adoration of the Washington comPost.
African American?? He’s a very dark mulatto. No such thing as African American. Just like there’s no such thing as gay marriage.
These folks did something great for America, don’t lose sight of that.
I don’t how deserving thy may be, if at all. What right does an Indonesian have to decorate American military?
I had the privilege of shaking the hands of 4 MOH recipients just a couple of weeks ago at the funeral service of WWII MOH recipient, SSG Walter Ehlers. They are all extraordinary individuals who earned their honors, they did not have them handed to them by a mom-jeans wearing community organizer trying to manufacture a legacy. Barry cheapens this honor, just as he cheapens the office of POTUS.
“As the only award available during this conflict, almost half of all Medals of Honor presented to date were awarded for actions in the four years of the Civil War.”
Looks like maybe pResident Obama is going to make sure every minority that ever served has one.
Boy am I glad I’m not one of these folks.
I mean of course, it is the ultimate honor for anyone that ever served in the military.............
......but you have to receive it from Zero.
Talk about the ULTIMATE Hobson’s choice!
I thought Congress was suppose to determine who gets it...hence the name Congressional Medal of Honor....
We need Congress to pass a law to review all of these Medal of Honor recipients for possible re-issue after Obama resigns this spring (during Operation American Spring)and everything he signed as an illegitimate president is declared null and void.
what you get an award for being discriminated against
laughable
And you can get a free Nobel for being a Communist.
I want to add that for any and all of these men who deserve this honor they should receive it. It is a shame they were not awarded it when they were still alive and a shame they must be awarded it by a caricature of a president.
Maybe you need to read the link.
ok
This is the same POSPOTUS that refused to attend the MOH Ball after his first inauguration
The problem with Affirmative Action is that it tinges any minority who receives and honor or achieves success on his own merit with the suspicion that this honor or achievement was only the result of some racial quota. This is especially poignant when talking about the Medal of Honor.
Having been a long-ago Marine officer, I've always read the actual citations that accompany the awards. If you examine the citations for Marines who received the Navy Cross from actions in Iraq/Afghanistan in the last 20 years, it's often impossible to distinguish them from MoH citations during WW II and Korea. Some cynics suggest that many Navy Crosses in recent years would have been MoHs had they been posthumous.
The point is, it'll never be perfect..call it the "fog of war." I do strenuously object to this mass PC upgrading to the MoH simply because of perceived "discrimination" decades past. We just don't know. Also, the MoH is the ultimate "individual" award..here' Obama's morphing it in to a "class of soldiers." It's akin t o giving every youngster in the soccer league a trophy.
Besides, if we're so willing to "upgrade" to the Medal, we should be equally willing to downgrade awards that don't meet the criteria. Nearly all the Medals handed out during the Civil War should be revoked,a s you correctly point out.
Even as late as WW II, the Navy handed them out for "political" reasons. After Pearl Harbor, for the first half of 1942, any submarine skipper who returned from patrol and sunk a Jap ship, even a small cargo vessel, got the Medal. The US was getting clobbered everywhere, we needed "heroes, and photo ops,"..so..that's what they did.
yeah Dusty, read it, and what I think the order was was this: find 19 people who were discriminated against, we have to demonstrate that the military is a racist organization.
So no, my comment doesn’t change. As a veteran I know for a fact the military was the opposite of a racist organization, it was pretty much a total meritocracy. So the administration is playing its race politics with the Medal of Honor and the administration is twisted and evil.
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