In my opinion, Lincoln was no saint. He was driven by personal ambition, and could just as easily have been “Mr. Reduced Tariffs,” or “Mr. Civil Service Reform.” But the because he chose the preservation of the Union as his holy grail, with its tremendous cost, his health took a visible toll.
Even if 9/11 hadn’t happened, Bush was set to be the Iraq War president. Where is the evidence of the loss of sleep, of the inadequate digestion, of the stress-induced illness and susceptibility to infection that would accompany anyone who’d considered the distance between his goals and their reality over the course of four years?
I think if you look at post#51, section B (1) you will see that this is not the case.
Only one medal is awarded, subsequent awards are of of Oak Leaf Clusters.
But no one on the SDMB objects if someone makes a statement with medals he has earned, unless it is a statement with which they don’t agree.
Actually, that depends on what they do with the medals. If Bush were to wear it, that would be bad, If, as seems to be the case, he accepted the gift with grace and in the spirit in which it was offered, then it is much more like someone accepting a flag at a veteran’s funeral, or finding your grandfather’s Normandy invasion medal after your grandmother dies.
Receiving somebody else’s medal as a gift is different from using it in bad faith. Using it in bad faith would be more like, say, repudiating the medal and then claiming it when you were running for President.
What a lovely bit of spin that is, Shodan. Definitely one of your better demonstrations in the arts of dynamic mendacity! “Repudiating the medal and then claiming it”! Boy, that’s a beaut, a ring-tailed humdinger!
When you sling the shit, the shit gets slung! I stand in awe.
Pretty much all Shodan does anymore is post one line drivebys that quite often demonstrate that he hasn’t even really read the OP. for this he pays 14.95? I don’t get it.
I think Shodan is an irredeemable jerkoff who wouldn’t stop eating the shit straight from Bush’s hole if he were caught using American soldiers for skeet shooting just because it’d piss the liberals off, but don’t you think you’re being kinda harsh here?
You are reading that right. Often times, that is not what happens in practice. I was writing my answer to cover all of the US Armed Forces. The the Wiki cite that you are referring to is to an (outdated) US Army regulation.
ETA: The current AR 600-8-22 does not differ substantively from the old AR 600-8-22, which was cited earlier.
