Re: The Feminization of the Medal of Honor
Mike Findlay <[email protected]>
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>And I too take some exception to his tone. But he is right in a sense, charging a machine gun nest to save your platoon is not the same as dragging a guy away from his captors.< I don't know. They are both selfless acts - putting aside one's own safety/life to save others. I know the numbers or scale aren' the same but the moitve/spirit behind them are, I think. >But what he (the author) fails to consider is that the real criteria of the MOH has room for both, and I think we are better served by recognizing gallantry in both areas.< Yes. I'm not an expert in how one qualifies for the MOH but I don't begrudge it to this guy at all, (not that it would matter if I did). I had read a while ago that there was a concern that there had been very few MOHs awared out of Iraq and that the lack of them may have been due to how unpopular the war became. I'm not saying I agree, just that it seems like the military is damned if they do and damned if they don't. Mike F. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of pcg Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 1:00 PM To: DADL (off topic) Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] The Feminization of the Medal of Honor > **I got to meet several medal of honor recipients. A sobering experience, > particularly when I read about them later. And all the ones I met were much > like this guy, very humble. I've no doubt, and my snarkiness is reserved for the writer of this article, who seems to feel that there is some sort of inherent manliness about killing. -- -pcg [email protected] -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot