I happen to hold a medal from the U.S. Army, but it's not a combat medal, it came from being part of the relief team after the 1989 San Francisco earthquake. This is it:
http://cpol.army.mil/library/permiss/5435.htmlPersonally, I think the Army Medical Corps went just a
little too far in pinning a medal on me for just doing my non-combatant job, but I'll always treasure it anyway.
Remember and honor our Troops today and always, both the living and the dead. They've done more for us and for the cause of freedom than anyone could really understand unless they'd been there. And who would have
wanted to be there? In a hail of fighter plane bullets? The very air spitting death? No thanks!
But I'd like to think that I might have behaved like Chief Finn. John Wayne and Gary Cooper only
played men like this, but he was the true coin:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/28/us/28finn.html?ref=obituaries