A News story you won't get from the mainstream media

I don't appreciate being told that I take offense to honoring our military heroes.

My grandfather manned one of the quad machine guns on a LCS(L) in the Pacific, and was involved in harrowing battles versus Kamikaze planes. He lost his finger when a Jap prisoner escaped and tried to kill him while he was sleeping on the deck. Great shot by the guard, right through the throat of the Jap, but unfortunately right where my PawPaws hand was as he was struggling. Despite the loss of his finger, he still manned his gun during an attack two hours later and shot down two Jap kamikaze planes. Came home with a Purple Heart and Bronze Star.

My father was a tank commander in Vietnam. He enlisted during a time where the war was already very unpopular, and remembers the insults shouted at their ROTC unit when they were drilling in the Pentagon Barracks at LSU.

My brother served as an officer during peacetime.

My best friend and best man at my wedding served as an Army Medic for many years, and was deployed in Panama, Iraq, and Somalia. He participated in the Black Hawk Down fiasco.

I did 3 years of ROTC and was rejected because of a history of childhood asthma. I am a Computer Engineer and really wanted to be in the Air Force, but at the time they weren't taking on many new people (Clinton Years).


So to characterize my attitude as somehow being anti-military is not only incorrect, but pretty offensive and ignorant. Not all "Liberals" hate the military. This isn't the 60s.

 

Well, defending the media offends me so we're even.

 

Then you completely misunderstood me. I wasn't defending the media. I was saying that the media caters to the interests of the populace. This isn't an endorsement. It's an observation.

You still haven't said what you think would've been the appropriate level of coverage on this event? I mean, even the extremely Liberal Huffington Post had a story on Russell Dunham, another MOD winner who died the other day.

->Huffington Post Medal of Honor Story<-

You didn't know about Russell Dunham dying, but the Huffington Post does? Strange.

You do know that Ed Freeman died in August of 'o8, right?

 

Yeah, I was at his funeral, but the point I'm trying to make is timeless.

 

Then you would also know that he was even a significant character portrayed by Mark McKracken in the Mel Gibson movie "We Were Soldiers".

I understand completely what point you are trying to make, and agree with it to a large degree, but I just don't agree that Ed Freeman really qualifies as a forgotten soldier. There are far better examples that make your point.