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Trump's Advisor on Trump's Medal of Freedom Remarks (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Go read or listen to literally any Medal of Honor citation.

If you think a Presidential Medal of Freedom is in any way close to those stories you must be a weirdo.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"Conspicuous gallantry" is the key word in all of them. They get rejected so easily if they have bad or inaccurate writing in them, that it takes decades and Pentagon as well as congressional approval including thousands of people throughout the process reading the citations on the award before getting the stamp of approval.

It means the dudes that earned them did something so absolutely fucking brave in the face of 100% certain death to save their battle-buddy or win an engagement with the enemy, that only someone with very specific and slight insane suicidal state of mind would even dream of considering. No one normal in regular combat earns a Medal of Honor.

Fuck Trump.