Another day, another Trump idiotic statement....
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He should have more respect for the medal than to accept it as a gift.
"thank you very much for the gesture, but I didn't earn this, you did. You need to keep it and display it proudly"
Something like that would have been classy .... but that's not Trump
"thank you very much for the gesture, but I didn't earn this, you did. You need to keep it and display it proudly"
Something like that would have been classy .... but that's not Trump
Tammy Duckworth and Bristol Palins husbands outrage doesn't look faked. Why would anyone have to fake outrage over something as stupid as that?
I'm not outraged, but it does bother me. It's pretty classless and he should have more respect for our military members, the medal and those that earned it. While I've never served, I've worked beside our military for a long time and I'm pretty sensitive to these kinds of things.
I actually listened to somebody tell somebody else that there's no way they earned the bronze star, because he knew what it took to earn it and there's no way the other guy was in a situation to earn it. That one outraged me.
There is a difference between what a bronze star used to mean and what it means now. Now, give no credence to it unless there is a V on it. They were giving Bronze stars away damn near for completing a deployment. I know one guy who go one because he kept track of all of his tools. The Bronze star turned into a participation trophy. It really demeans what a lot of individuals did in past wars to earn them in my opinion.
This guy in question had scar on his chest from shrapnel, so I'd say he earned it.
The argument was coming from a guy that claimed he had been in the Navy but was off by several orders of magnitude on the weight of a carrier. If you've ever met somebody in the Navy, they can tell you every dimension of their ship, so for somebody to be THAT far off ... and argue about what somebody else accomplished or didn't accomplish was outrageous to me.
My dad had a bronze star from WWII. He said he felt pretty proud about earning too, until he heard a couple of officers toward the end of the war talking about putting one of their buddies in for one because he was a pretty good guy. My dad was a medic and ambulance driver in the European theater, so maybe that was a different mindset in that officer corps - primarily medical folks. That story struck me as similar to Frank Burns' Purple Heart for shell fragments in his eye.