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#1
13-01-16, 08:00 PM
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Good news for American Walts...
US Courts have made an incredible decision that people who want to wear un-earned / un-awarded medals have the right to do so.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...111-story.html
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13-01-16, 08:07 PM
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Very sad indeed..
 I note the article mentions that "that wearing a medal conveys a message" and thus protected by the 1st, so it doesn't mater that the "message" is a complete lie then...  I will end how I started - 'very sad indeed'. Roy.
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13-01-16, 08:33 PM
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I remember sitting opposite an American Officer (National Guard)...... handsome rack of ribbons on his chest. One of them was for "flying" over a "combat zone" - Northern Ireland.... I almost choked on my food. a few of them were for shooting. So .... not all that glitters is gold.
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13-01-16, 08:34 PM
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The way they dish them out is worse than cub scout badges! There must be so many around that I am not surprised they have very little financial value.
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14-01-16, 01:08 AM
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Yes, it is. Wearing a relatives medals on the right breast can be an act of remembrance and show of respect for the relative who earned them.
Wearing medals that have not been earned is showing a total disrespect of both the wearer himself and all those who did earn them. Eddie
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#8
14-01-16, 03:00 AM
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One can walk into an American Post Exchange and purchase pretty much any medal you want. The only one I didn't recall seeing was The Medal of Honor. They aren't like British and Canadian awards.
Phil
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14-01-16, 04:44 PM
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Vietnam medal
In the 1970's I was a steward with BOAC. I remember one sector flying between Delhi and Hong Kong. We were at 35,000 feet flying over Vietnam. If you looked out of the porthole you could see puffs of smoke on the ground!!
An American passenger, who was obviously a serviceman, out of uniform, asked me if the captain would sign a piece of paper. I asked what it was for. He said that he would get a medal for flying a 'combat' mission over Vietnam. He needed the captain to confirm this. He was on his way to Hong Kong for some R & R. I took the paper to the front galley & got one of the stewardesses to scribble on the paper. I gave the guy the paper back. Hope he looked good with his extra ribbon up. That evening we had a good laugh at the crew party in the hotel in Hong Kong, remembering all the 'combat missions' we had flown over the past years, in a British airliner at 35,000 feet. We had medals from both sides in the Indo-Pakistan War, Arab- Israeli War, Vietnam War, etc. etc. Plus disaster medals for floods, hurricanes, civil unrest.... Alan
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14-01-16, 04:57 PM
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That reminds me of the line in a M*A*S*H episode where Frank Burns wants a Purple Heart for being wounded in combat - he got a splinter in his finger from something. Or was it in his bum from the latrine?
I hear the Russians and the North Koreans are just as bad for medals. David
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#11
14-01-16, 06:43 PM
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No David, it was from shell fragments in his eye...EGG shell fragments!
Ian
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15-01-16, 02:12 PM
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Quote:
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The day the government succeeds in taking away our dress uniforms, badges and colours, and all the so called "non-functional" items; they will find themselves with an army that cannot defend them. Robert Heinlein, "Starship Troopers"
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15-01-16, 04:12 PM
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Ian, thanks for setting that straight. It's been so long since I saw any of those episodes. Still funny, some very poignant.
Marcus: Groan! Love the pun. A man after my own heart. David
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15-01-16, 05:36 PM
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Well this thread I am sure was intended for some harmless fun. However, I hope we have not lost sight of the American soldiers who do rightfully earn medals for their service, sacrifice, fighting and dying in combat zones around the world. As opposed to those exceptions humorously mentioned above.
Jack
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