Odie

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  1. It also seems strange since it was the Marine Corp itself that made the recommendations to award the medal that it would be rejected.

    They made the recommendation believing that it would not be rejected by Defense Security. Also the Department of the Navy made the recommendation believing it would not be rejected by Defense Security. He went through a committee that recommend the award believing it would not be rejected by Defense Security. He was spoken by the president himself for his act. Only an autopsy and the strong possibility of "friendly fire" is stopping him from getting the Medal of Honor by the Defense Security.

     

    The full title is called Congressional Medal of Honor not Defense Security Medial Honor. Defense Security should not be sole authority on the medal itself, but only the president and Congress.

     

    The Official Site of Medal of Honor

     

    The Medal of Honor, established by joint resolution of Congress, 12 July 1862 (amended by Act of 9 July 1918 and Act of 25 July 1963) is awarded in the name of Congress to a person who, while a member of the Armed Services, distinguishes himself conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while engaged in an action against any enemy of The United States; while engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing foreign force; or while serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict against an opposing armed force in which The United States is not a belligerent party. The deed performed must have been one of personal bravery or self-sacrifice so conspicuous as to clearly distinguish the individual above his comrades and must have involved risk of life. Incontestable proof of the performance of service is exacted and each recommendation for award of this decoration is considered on the standard of extraordinary merit. Full-text Listings of Medal of Honor Citations The President, in the name of Congress, has awarded more than 3,400 Medals of Honor to our nation's bravest Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen since the decoration's creation in 1861.

     

    The site has list of awardees and their citations.


  2. I believe there has only been 5 Medal of Honors have been awarded under Bush. I believe should be more in amount of time that we have been fighting this war against terror. I don't this generation is any different from past.

     

    When I was a junior sailor my department head at that time made us read from a list of Medal of Honor awardees. Gross amount of awardees received the medial under the same circumstance as Sgt. Rafael Peralta. Bush can award him posthumously...

     

    Politics has no business with this award.


  3. Mother of Marine Who Fell on Enemy Grenade to Make Son's Case for Medal of Honor

    Thursday, September 18, 2008

     

    CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — The mother of a Marine who witnesses say covered a grenade with his body to save comrades in Iraq plans to appeal to Congress to award her son the nation's highest military honor after learning it was denied by Defense Secretary Robert Gates because of questions about his final act.

     

    Rosa Peralta said Thursday she made the decision after a Marine general told her that her son, Sgt. Rafael Peralta, would be awarded the Navy Cross rather than the Medal of Honor because the nomination was tainted by reports he was accidentally shot by a fellow Marine shortly before an insurgent lobbed the grenade.

     

    "I'm going to see what can be done, because I'm not satisfied with what they want to do now," she said in Spanish.

     

    President Bush singled out the Marine's actions in a 2005 Memorial Day speech, saying Peralta "understood that America faces dangerous enemies, and he knew the sacrifices required to defeat them."

     

    "The president spoke of him. So how is this now possible that they do this," Rosa Peralta said.

     

    She said she was considering rejecting the Navy Cross, the second-highest award for valor in combat that can be awarded to a Marine. Peralta will be the 24th recipient of the Navy Cross for actions in Iraq and Afghanistan.

     

    "I still don't know what I'm going to do," she said.

     

    The question about whether to award Peralta the Medal of Honor centers on whether the mortally wounded Marine, who was shot in the head and upper body, could have intentionally reached for the grenade and covered it with his body.

     

    "There was conflicting evidence in the case of Sgt. Peralta as to whether he could have pents, Peralta lay mortally wounded on the floor of a house and grabbed a grenade lobbed by fleeing insurgents. His body absorbed the blast and he died immediately.

     

    In a rare move, the Marine Corps Thursday released a redacted copy of the Medal of Honor nomination by Lt. Gen. Richard Natonski and a investigative report detailing the "friendly fire" shooting of the sergeant.

     

    The report found sufficient evidence existed to believe that Peralta was probably shot by a fellow Marine and that a gunshot wound to the head and injuries to the head from a grenade caused his death.

     

    The nomination, which relies on witness statements, forensics, bomb fragment analysis and an autopsy, concluded that although Peralta was shot in the head, he made "a conscious, heroic decision to cover the grenade and minimize the effects he knew it would have on the rest of his Marine team."

     

    The nomination details Peralta's actions in the final minutes of his life, with several witnesses recounting how the Marine lay face down and used his arm to pull the grenade to him. It also says a forensic analysis of Peralta's clothing and flak jacket show the grenade was underneath him when it exploded.

     

    Peralta, who was assigned to Hawaii's 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, moved to San Diego from Tijuana as a teenager. He was 25.


  4. Pretty nice error considering that the s and b aren't even close to each other on the keyboard..

    But if you touch type the keys are on the left side of the keyboard which means the left hand would use them. I can see it happening. They should have proof read it one more time before sending off to the printers.


  5. I'm growing more excited as the time passes about this new movie.

     

    It could end up like the Tim Burton 'Planet of the Apes' reboot. :laugh:

    [Or it could end up like the 'Galactica' reboot, which has been well recieved. :clap:

    We actually agree on something. I don't like the end of Planet of the Apes. <_<

     

     

    I'm growing more excited as the time passes about this new movie.

     

    It could end up like the Tim Burton 'Planet of the Apes' reboot. :spock:

    Or it could end up like the 'Galactica' reboot, which has been well recieved. :happydance:

    I really hope it doesn't end up like either one of them. They both sucked.

    I actually like Galactica reboot!


  6. I am just looking at a different perspective and some life experience. I have friends that haven't bounce back life changing events when they are adult. I also have friend when she was a children lost her sister yet she bounce back. Children are more likely to get help they need than an adult that has go through the stage denial before they will get that help they need. Sometimes it takes years.

     

    I am not an expert, but I am speaking from experence. There are some events that happen in children that the person never bounce back and any event in adulthood makes much more harder to deal with.