I am also impressed by recipients of the congressional medal of honor,
but I like to read a little about where and why it was received.  I
developed this strange affliction after discovering a bunch of guys who
got them at Wounded Knee.

What did one have to do at Wounded Knee to receive a medal of honor?

-jc

On Monday, March 17, 2003, at 08:51  PM, Ralph Walter wrote:

> In a message dated 3/17/2003 8:20:12 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
>
> My personal hero.
> jh
>
>
>
> A brief look at Smedley "Gimlet Eye" Butler in Google finds that he
> seems to have been a pretty colorful guy (2x Congressional Medal of
> Honor winner [no small potatoes in this ex-Boy Scout's book]; and had
> some strange political connections [maybe Commie, maybe Nazi, maybe
> both at different times; definitely pacifist/non-interventionist] in
> the 30's) who died in June 1940.
>
> So we ain't gonna find out what he thought after Pearl Harbor in
> relation to his earlier opposition to having the US intervene in
> anything that didn't occur on our side of the ocean.
>
> Ralph