Presidents Obama, Bush and Clinton in a new PSA urge Americans to support the National Medal of Honor Museum: building a museum for MOH recipients

[basquebromance]

Obama did a good thing? hell is freezing over!

Presidents Obama, Bush and Clinton in new PSA urge Americans to support National Medal of Honor Museum | CNN Politics

Former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama are asking Americans for support to build a national museum to recognize Medal of Honor recipients.

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[pknopp]

To honor soldiers you don't needlessly put them into a position to get this medal like Bush and Obama did (and Clinton to a far lesser measure).

Build it but don't ever allow Bush or Obama to ever set foot in it.

 

[JGalt]

Most Medals of Honor are awarded posthumously. If anyone knows about getting American soldiers killed, it's Obama, Bush, and Clinton.

Urk. Beat by a moment.

 

[rightwinger]

Where is Fat Donnie?

 

[Otis Mayfield]

It could be a real cool museum if they showed the story of how each won their medals.

There was a guy who got his feet blown off by landmines. He pulled himself along the ground with his hands and continued his mission, destroying two German machine gun nests.

 

[Oddball]

Clintoon, Chimpola, and Oboingo having anything to do with honor?

<<seizures of cognitive dissonance ensue>>

 

[rightwinger]

It could be a real cool museum if they showed the story of how each won their medals.

There was a guy who got his feet blown off by landmines. He pulled himself along the ground with his hands and continued his mission, destroying two German machine gun nests.

Daniel Inouye a Japanese American from Hawaii leading an attack on 3 German machine gun nests

As his squad distracted the third machine gunner, Inouye crawled toward the final bunker, coming within 10 yards. As he raised himself up and cocked his arm to throw his last grenade, a German soldier inside the bunker fired a rifle grenade, which struck his right elbow, nearly severing most of his arm and leaving his primed grenade reflexively "clenched in a fist that suddenly didn't belong to me anymore". Inouye's horrified soldiers moved to his aid, but he shouted for them to keep back out of fear his severed fist would involuntarily relax and drop the grenade. While the German inside the bunker reloaded his rifle, Inouye pried the live grenade from his useless right hand and transferred it to his left. As the enemy soldier aimed his rifle at him, Inouye tossed the grenade into the bunker and destroyed it. He stumbled to his feet and continued forward, silencing the last German resistance with a one-handed burst from his Thompson before being wounded in the leg and tumbling unconscious to the bottom of the ridge.

Inouye went on to serve as the Senator from Hawaii for 50 years