Medal of Honor Awarded to Soldier

[BTs_GhostSniper]

I made a new tribute for the first Medal of Honor recipient from the War on Terrorism.  He is the first recipient since 1993, and only the 3rd since the Vietnam War:[/size]

http://www.military.com/HomePage/UserCreatedTributePage/0,10980,735749,00.html

[Blitz]

That is pretty cool GS. As a note, can you see if you can get more detail on it? All I know is his son received the medal in his honor.

Blitz

[BTs_GhostSniper]

That is pretty cool GS. As a note, can you see if you can get more detail on it? All I know is his son received the medal in his honor.

Here are a few websites with more info:

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/webspecials04/medalofhonor/

http://www.army.mil/medalofhonor/

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-03-30-medal-honor_x.htm

[Supernatural Pie]

Thanks for the links, GS.

[BTs_GhostSniper]

Thanks for the links, GS.

No problem.  Anytime anyone needs links to anything military related, just ask.  I have something like 10,000 military-related links saved on my computer.

[Po~ReverendMoss]

It's unfortunate he's been dead for so long. He might have enjoyed the honor.

[BTs_GhostSniper]

It's unfortunate he's been dead for so long. He might have enjoyed the honor.

Yeah, one thing sad about the Medal of Honor...most recipients are awarded it posthumously, because they died in the action in which they are being honored.  That is true of the last 3 that were awarded (this one, plus 2 awarded to Rangers in Somalia in 1993).

[Po~ReverendMoss]

There's a wall in the <a href="http://naval.aviation.museum/exhibits/medal_of_honor.html">Naval Aviation Museum</a> in Pensacola that shows the naval aviators who were recipients of the MoH and a short story for each one as to how the award was merited. It's a sobering piece of history.

GS, if you're ever in the panhandle, I'm sure you'd dig this place, if you haven't already been. I've spent countless hours there, and go almost everytime i'm in town.

[BTs_GhostSniper]

There's a wall in the <a href="http://naval.aviation.museum/exhibits/medal_of_honor.html">Naval Aviation Museum</a> in Pensacola that shows the naval aviators who were recipients of the MoH and a short story for each one as to how the award was merited. It's a sobering piece of history.

GS, if you're ever in the panhandle, I'm sure you'd dig this place, if you haven't already been. I've spent countless hours there, and go almost everytime i'm in town.

lol...I was a tour guide there on the weekends for most of the decade of the 90's.  I still take my wife and daughter at least 4 or 5 times a year.  Another nice place to visit, which isn't but about 30-45 minutes from Pensacola, is the USS Alabama in Mobile Bay, AL.  They have the battleship, a WWII Submarine, plus numerous aircraft on display (inlcuding an SR-71).  We usually make a two-day weekend out of seeing both places since they are so close together.

-GhostSniper Out.

P.S. Where I live on the Mississippi Gulf Coast is halfway between New Orleans, LA, and Mobile, AL (about an hour from each).  New Orleans is home to the National D-Day Museum, another really nice place to visit if you are in New Orleans.