Subject: U$ Military Medals meaningless junk ...!
From: "Joey Bishop"
Date: 8/30/03 9:45 AM Pacific Daylight Time
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"Big Dave" david wrote
Considering what bravery and sacrifice is require to be awarded most medals
that is a pretty thoughtless and ignorant statement to make I agree with
Art.

Medals are pretty much purely something out of the past. Today, most
soldiers
compare them to the gold and silver stars they got in grade school. The
Armies
penchant for giving out unit awards, or block allocations, pretty much
dilutes
any benefit. I.e., "we can't decide who to give the medal to, so, heck, we
are
going to give the whole unit a medal! You've all done an outstanding job, and
oh! the Commander would like a higher body count, thank you."



Please list your medals, battle stars and theatre ribbons as well as oak leaf
clusters and all the missions you have flown. .Try to keep it down to 5 or 6
pages at the most even if you have to leave 40 or 50 missions out..we all await
your long list anxiously



Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
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http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer