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70sEraVet

(4,111 posts) Sat Aug 17, 2024, 04:39 PM Aug 17

There are currently 60 living Medal of Honor recipients.

I wonder how many of them are sickened at the thought that a former US President, a former Commander-in-Chief of military forces, considers an award that he presented to one of the largest donors to the Republican Party, to be a higher honor than the Medal that they received?
I wonder how many of them will vote Harris/Walz this fall?

https://www.cmohs.org/recipients/lists/living-recipients

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There are currently 60 living Medal of Honor recipients. (Original Post) 70sEraVet Aug 17 OP

Unless it's changed, PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 17 #1

I'm thinking all of them Kittycatkat Aug 17 #2

And he also repeatedly degraded the Presidential Medal of Freedom award Ocelot II Aug 17 #3

If Dotard had the power to award the CMH........ AZ8theist Aug 17 #4

publikans will. pansypoo53219 Aug 18 #5

PoindexterOglethorpe

(26,544 posts)

1. Unless it's changed,

Reply to 70sEraVet (Original post)

Sat Aug 17, 2024, 04:40 PM

Aug 17

Medal of Honor winners can get a free airplane ticket to attend a Presidential Inauguration.

Kittycatkat

(1,708 posts)

2. I'm thinking all of them

Reply to 70sEraVet (Original post)

Sat Aug 17, 2024, 04:43 PM

Aug 17

plus all their friends and family I would presume.

Ocelot II

(120,110 posts)

3. And he also repeatedly degraded the Presidential Medal of Freedom award

Reply to 70sEraVet (Original post)

Sat Aug 17, 2024, 04:50 PM

Aug 17

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by giving it to wealthy donors and the likes of Rush Limbaugh when it was intended as an honor to be awarded to "individuals who have made exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States, world peace, or other significant societal, public or private endeavors." Of course the Medal of Honor stands alone, to be given only to those military personnel (suckers and losers, to him) who have shown uncommon valor in action at great risk to themselves; for Trump to suggest that it's lesser than the Medal of Freedom (which nevertheless deserves more respect than Trump gave it) is a grave insult to its recipients. But I suspect that one reason he called the Medal of Freedom a better or more important award is because as president he had the power to bestow it, while only Congress - not Trump - could award the Medal of Honor. In his mind, anything he can do is always going to be better than anything anyone else can do.

AZ8theist

(6,427 posts)

4. If Dotard had the power to award the CMH........

Reply to Ocelot II (Reply #3)

Sat Aug 17, 2024, 06:21 PM

Aug 17

....he would have given them out like candy to the Jan 6th terrorists.

pansypoo53219

(21,661 posts)

5. publikans will.

Reply to 70sEraVet (Original post)

Sun Aug 18, 2024, 10:30 AM

Aug 18

my mostly sane republikan epal believes the dirty election hook line + sinker + the mule shit is REAL!!!!
facts never matter. only fl does it right.

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