Barack Obama Doesn't know the difference between this and a Medal of Honor ceremony
This month, President Obama, despite his rather showy appearance to salute the coffins of American servicemen arriving at Dover– and finally showing up today at Fort Hood for the public memorial service– is proving how ignorant (if not indifferent) he is to the military’s traditions of how Americans honor our fallen heroes.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: I want to thank my Cabinet members and senior administration officials who participated today. I hear that Dr. Joe Medicine Crow (ph) was around, and so I want to give a shout out to that Congressional Medal of Honor winner. It’s good to see you.
Largely overlooked in the shock many felt over Obama’s casual and callow statement about the massacre at Ft. Hood was the fact that he showed in his “shout out” to Joe Medicine Crow, that he did not know the difference between the Presidential Medal of Freedom– a largely political award at the discretion of the President– and the Congressional Medal of Honor.
The Medal of Honor is the nation’s highest honor for valor in combat; and as likely to be awarded posthumously as not. In fact, all of the Medal of Honor recipients in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have so far been awarded to soldiers who gave their lives to save those of their comrades.
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