Pols Want Review
California pols want Bush to review the denial of a Medal of Honor for USMC Rafael Peralta. San Diego Union-Trib. Fair enough, review. Put the evidence out there. Just keep the politics out of it, and the pols at arm’s length.
Previously, MOH Denied.
Topics: Iraq, courage, military, pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 2:27 pm on Saturday, September 20, 2008
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September 21st, 2008 at 4:27 am
What made this one different than the others in similar circumstances is that Peralta apparently had suffered a significant friendly fire head wound prior. There was a living MOH recipient in the review group, so its not like they were doing stuff randomly.
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:55 am
He has a head wound, knows that he’s dying and decides to do something for the ones who are still alive. All it takes is the knowledge that he’s going to die. Technicalities are for when a death can’t be verified by eye witnesses. The man did save some of his fellows and he did die. The head wound IIRC was from friendly fire. So getting shot by your own disqualifies? Story