If you were a war hero, would you accept a Medal of Honor from ...

[speedoo]

the Coward?

I hope that if I had the choice, I would refuse. I would tell the Coward that the Medal of Honor is demeaned when he presents it, since he was AWOL and for so many other reasons.

[Options Remain]

1. NYET and I would make sure i did it during the ceremony

even better if it was on national television.

[Lindacooks]

2. Nope, I'd decline it and say why - and my reasons are yours.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

3. Given how they hand out medals,

they have rendered even the Congressional Medal Of Honor meaningless and worthless.

[MildyRules]

5. First of all it is not the "Congressional Medal Of Honor"

It's just the Medal of Honor. Secondly, show me an example from Iraq or Afghanistan that made the MOH meaningless? I don't mean to jump on you, but don't EVER claim the MOH is worthless.

[trotsky]

8. Isn't the MoH what they gave Bremer

after he finishing f*cking up Iraq?

I think that kind of medal-awarding is what the poster is referring to.

[MildyRules]

10. No, it's not

He did not receive the Medal of Honor. He's not even military...

[OldLeftieLawyer]

11. No

You're confusing the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is awarded to civilians - like Bremer - with the Congressional Medal Of Honor, which is awarded for valor in battle.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

9. Well,

I commend you on your ignorance, but you're wrong about the name of the medal.

My godfather won one. I have it now.

Let me help you with this one - http://tinyurl.com/dzrn5

Go do your homework, and, by the way, don't EVER tell ANYONE what their opinion should be, twit.

[MildyRules]

12. Actually ,you are 100% wrong

From the website you linked... "Society created by the US Congress in remembrance of recipients of the Medal of Honor..." The name of the SOCIETY is the Congressional Medal of Honor Society. The MEDAL is correctly known simply as the Medal of Honor.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

13. HAHAHAHAHHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!

You can't read? Did you see what was going to be awarded to the ...... oh, man, this is too stupid.

Thank you so much for the laugh.

[MildyRules]

14. Read and shut up

"Although a Medal of Honor is sometimes called the Congressional Medal of Honor, this name does not appear in the section of the U.S. Code defining it, and standard military practice is to refer to it simply as the Medal of Honor."

NO ONE in the military calls it the Congressional MoH. No one except civilian no-nothings.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

15. Darling,

your knowledge just astonishes me. Brilliant, absolutely brilliant.

So, I guess that "Congressional Medal Of Honor" that's being awarded to Tibon Rubin posthumously today at the White House is something else entirely.

Try this again, and, if your lips don't get too tired, try reading just the first line. You'll recover - http://tinyurl.com/dzrn5

Hey, and welcome to DU, doll!!!!

[MildyRules]

17. The name of the SOCIETY is the CMoHS

It's not that name of the medal. Look it up; ask some military men (or women) who SERVED. I provided you the correct info. BY the way, one does not WIN a medal, EVER. But, those who have never served don't know that.

READ: The correct name is the Medal of Honor and not the Congressional Medal of Honor. While the Medal, like so many other things in life today, is given by authority of the United States Congress, the proper name is the MEDAL OF HONOR.

http://www.medalofhonor.com/Today.htm

[OldLeftieLawyer]

18. Medals are awarded

My goodness, you're just a veritable waterfall of misinformation.

[MildyRules]

19. Awarded

correct. Not "won."

[Burning Water]

22. Are you really

a lawyer?

[catnhatnh]

4. I'd accept it....

...with deep humility as a tie to all former recipients, and ignore the political creature handing it out...just me

[obxhead]

6. I'd accept with one condition

Have Cindy in the crowd so I could give it to her in front of all the cameras.

[noahmijo]

7. I would accept it but I would tell AWOL

I am accepting this award for saving the lives of my fellow soldiers NOT for your filthy war, and quite frankly it dilutes the prestige of this award to have YOU present it.

[rockymountaindem]

16. Can't it be awarded by any member of government or Congress?

I was under the impression that it could be awarded by members of Congress. If that's the case, I would ask to recieve it from Sen. Lautenberg, because he is a WWII veteran and I have so much respect for vets of that war and the entire generation of Americans who lived through it.

[Enraged_Ape]

20. I would gladly accept it as long as they let me give a speech

And I'm pretty sure you know what I'd say. :evilgrin:

[MildyRules]

21. There you go!

[BOSSHOG]

23. IN A SOMEWHAT RELATED SITUATION

I retired from the world's greatest Navy in 2002. I had a bonafide U. S. Navy retirement ceremony with all the relative pomp and circumstance. A letter from the commander in chief is available upon request. I asked my Sailors to contact President Clinton's Office in New York and get a Letter of Congratulations from him. It felt great having his name read at my retirement ceremony. Nowhere near a CMH, but if I were in a position to receive it, I would request someone else make the presentation or I would deny it (with all the relative pomp and circumstance.) bush is scum of the universe to me in so many ways. I have two things in my wallet I'll use at the drop of an ignorant (in other words, conservative) comment, my ACLU membership card and my military retiree ID Card. I don't leave home without them.

[speedoo]

24. BOSSHOG..... BRAVO ZULU!!!!!

I'm proud to have served in the same navy you did.