SoCalDem
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Sat Sep-18-04 04:28 PM
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Soldier pulls other soldier out of burning truck..no medal |
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Edited on Sat Sep-18-04 04:30 PM by SoCalDem
My friend told me today how disillusioned her son is over this "event".. It was a few months ago.. He was in the third truck back.. Truck #1 hit a mine, and burst into flames..
He and the guys from truck #2 got out and raced towards their fellow soldiers in the lead truck.. My friend's son pulled a guy out, rolled him to put the fire ON HIM out (burning his own hands in the process)..
They get the guys evacuated and nothing more is said about the "event" ..for a few weeks.. The person in charge comes to her son and asks him if he plans to re-enlist..(the burns on his hands were not serious).. He tells him NO WAY.. (the realization that he could actually get killed hit home that day..)(He's 26 with 2 little kids)...
He has already been "stop-lossed" twice.. He offhandedly asked about his "rescue" of the soldier in the fire, and if there's anything he needed to sign for the commendation he was told he was going to get..The person in charge, says.."There is no commendation due you." You did what was expected of you..that's all.."
He is now home, and she said he bristles at the very word Army or Iraq..
and he hates George Bush too :)
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Sat Sep-18-04 04:35 PM
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1. He should go public but that may be too much to ask. |
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Sat Sep-18-04 04:41 PM
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2. She told him to, but you know how proud guys are |
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He did not want to appear to be whining..He said he "felt" that if he had said YES to the re-enlistment, the medal would have been his..
He only wanted it because he has a young son, and thought that someday he would tell him about how he saved a guy's life..and then give the son the medal..
He's come to terms with it, and he's elated to be OUT and back home ..but it made him feel a bit used and abused.:(
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Sat Sep-18-04 04:45 PM
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3. So of COURSE he didn't get a Purple Heart................... |
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under the new Repuke rules, you have to BLEED, a LOT, to get a PH. Burns, no matter how severe, aren't a "real" war injury. (sarcasm off)
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Sat Sep-18-04 05:04 PM
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4. This infuriates me. Kerry should rectify it when he's President. nt |
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Sat Sep-18-04 05:06 PM
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5. If he wanted a medal, he should have been a professional... |
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football player. And gotten killed by friendly fire.
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Sat Sep-18-04 05:17 PM
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6. Maybe they'll send him one of their band-aids |
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GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR I HATE these people!!!!
Repukes new motto: "We have the guts to call cannon fodder, cannon fodder."
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Sat Sep-18-04 05:20 PM
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8. The thing is.. He did not think he deserved a purple heart |
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but his immediate superior said he was putting him in for a commendation for bravery in the rescue ..The guy was unconscious, and there was fuel all over the road...and there was fire everywhere..
He would have done it anyway,(they guy is his friend) but the fact that the "commendation" somehow was tied to the re-enlistment is what pissed him off..
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Sat Sep-18-04 05:58 PM
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15. He unquestionably deserves more than a PH |
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I don't know about the requirements for different medals, but risking your own life to save that of another is definately deserving of something. The games these people are playing with the troops make me want to :nuke:
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Sat Sep-18-04 05:20 PM
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7. This will sound callous to some |
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Edited on Sat Sep-18-04 05:21 PM by DS1
If they weren't under fire, I can't see how this wouldn't be expected of every serviceman.
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Sat Sep-18-04 05:21 PM
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Sat Sep-18-04 05:20 PM
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9. single mother raises 2 kids working 2 jobs... no medal |
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THe whole military thing in iraq is a disgrace, mostly as it distracts from the true heros.... who are busting their ass making another generation of civil human beings.
Ain't it all a bit twisted that the REAL heroes goe unnoticed.
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Sat Sep-18-04 05:29 PM
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If our military was being used properly, I think you might disagree with what you said, also.
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Sat Sep-18-04 05:34 PM
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13. "If our military was being used properly." |
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But it isn't. It is criminal, this illegal invasion. That makes all parties criminal, just like the people doing the driving for a bank robbery.
The USA is not under any sovereign threat. The military should be at home in the barracks with medals going to mothers, and poeple who bust their asses paying taxes so that the country does not collapse around our ears.
You're right. I'd disagree with what i said in a science fiction movie where the country was doing ANYTHING even remotely related to democracy or justice.
As it stands, single mothers who love their kids are the real heroes.
Military people who let themselves be involved in a crime are accomplaces.
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Sat Sep-18-04 05:32 PM
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12. Glad your son made it home OK! |
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I am, however, at a loss to understand why he did not receive some kind of a medal for his heroic actions. :shrug:
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Sat Sep-18-04 05:37 PM
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14. Not my son, but I am also glad.. He has twin brothers aged 23 |
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who are still in the service.. One army..one Airforce..One is in Kuwait..the other in Turkey..
They had all hoped to make the service a career, and now the other two are counting down the days too ...
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Sat Sep-18-04 08:39 PM
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16. Could your friend, their mom, go public instead? |
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At least write a letter to the editor of her local paper? Or would that upset her son? THREE sons.....god she must still be suffering daily along with the two still there. :(
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