And what did Santa bring you for Christmas?
(Of course, then again, Hathcock's commanding general turned down suggestions that Hathcock be extracted, since he knew Hathcock was capable of keeping any number of enemy pinned down singlehandledly, so maybe you have a point).
HorseHillary! Notice how the ONLY valor award he received was for the incident where the APC ran over a mine? IF Hathcock had done what is claimed and this USMC General were aware of it,don't you think he would have received at LEAST a Silver Star then? He would have most likely gotten a Navy Cross. But then again,we ALL know how much USMC Generals hate all the publicity the USMC gets when they hand out medals,right?
hcock was the best rifleman in the world. Hathcock won the Wimbledon Cup. Hathcock...
Both are true statements. Neither has anything to do with earning a Medal of Honor.
... Oh, never mind. You must just not understand.
I understand perfectly. I have stood in formation and been friends with 3 different MOH winners. My first company commander on Okinawa won a MOH in Korea as a Master Sgt who was I THINK 19 at the time. His name was Ola Mize,and he single-handlt killed at least 10 Chinese with a entrenching tool,and ran the entire platoon off the hill with it when they started executing the wounded GI's he had just spent all night trying to save. This was after he had been wounded several times himself,but was the only mobile man left in his company. He had spent all night moving from machine gun position to machine gun position to keep them off the hill. He finally decided to surrender at dawn when he ran out of ammo,figuring he could stay with his fellow GI's and attend to their wounds,rather than E&E to another US held position. It was after he had already surrendered and the Chinese starting sticking bayonets into his wounded comrades that he went nuts,grabbed the entrenching tool,and went after them.
The CMH is barely, *barely* enough for this man...
This right here is proof YOU don't understand. The MOH is ONLY given to those who commit acts of supreme bravery with no consideration given to their own safety. These acts almost always involved great personal risk while repeatedly exposing yourself to enemy fire in order to save the lives of your fellow soldiers,Marines,or sailors. Most never survive their action,and those who do are usually so shot-up that they spend months in a hospital recovering. To say that a "MOH is barely enough for this man" is to insult the memory of all those who HAVE earned it.
The MOH should ONLY given to those who commit acts of supreme bravery with no consideration given to their own safety.
Remember Dugout Doug, et al.