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#medalofhonor

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Six Grandfathers Mountain

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"...Black, Latino, and women service members were suddenly erased, from Sgt. William Carney, the first Black American to earn a #MedalofHonor during the #CivilWar... #JackieRobinson, World War II #TuskegeeAirmen, a decorated #JapaneseAmerican unit while Americans of Japanese descent were interned, and the famous #NavajoCodeTalkers, most of the erasure remains"

Erasure of history will eventually ask you to add it back, what a waste of life

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americ
(disease killed too)

United States 110,000+ KIA or DOW (died of wounds) 230,000+ died from accidents or disease 25,000–30,000 died in Confederate prisons 365,000+ total dead 282,000+ wounded 181,193 captured 828,000+ total casualties Confederate States 94,000+ KIA or DOW 164,000+ died from accidents or disease 26,000–31,000 died in Union prisons 290,000+ total dead 137,000+ wounded 436,658 captured 864,000+ total casualties Non Military 50,000 free civilians died 60,000 documented enslaved persons, "tens of thousands" of undocumented died from disease TOTAL (all) 616,222–1,000,000+
A star and bones X flag that is orange and brings back bad memories
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Brian Nicar

@benroyce Having served in the military with distinction myself, I can say that the United States doesn't just hand out the #MedalofHonor For any reason other than extreme valor. DEI has absolutely nothing to do with it since inclusion is generally not ideal, particularly when one considers that many of the recipients are dead when it is awarded. But, at best, they're remembering the worst day of their lives. This is vile and goes against any concept of honor and decency I can think of...

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Ben Royce 🇺🇦

#US #army Maj Gen #CharlesCalvinRogers

Received the highest #military decoration in the #USA, the #MedalofHonor

On Nov 1 1968, the #VietnamWar, despite a horrific injury, Rogers rallied his men in defense of their base and led the battalion until a major attack was repulsed

The #Trump regime removed him from the #DoD website

Not only is his page now 404, they changed the URL

The word "medal"

in the URL

for the bio of this exemplary man

was changed to

"deimedal"

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

US army Maj Gen Charles Calvin Rogers
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Pax Ahimsa Gethen

While doing research for the @wikipedia article on #CharlesRogers, I learned that in 2023, #JimJustice, then-Governor of #WestVirginia, broke ground on a nursing facility named in Rogers' honor. Justice is now a senator, and recently introduced a bill to create a monument to #MedalOfHonor recipients. I wonder if he knows or cares about the government's erasure of Rogers' web page.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_

wvmetronews.com/2023/10/23/off

justice.senate.gov/press-relea

en.wikipedia.orgCharles Calvin Rogers - Wikipedia
#BlackMastodon#DEI#USPol
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John Autry

10/12/1945-Pfc. Desmond Doss became the first conscientious objector ever to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Doss, a 7th Day Adventist, enlisted in 1942 but refused to carry a rifle or train on Saturdays. On the island of Okinawa, under heavy Japanese fire, he saved the lives of 75 sick & wounded soldiers by lowering them, one by one, down a 400-foot cliff.

The guest house at Walter Reed Army Medical Center is Doss Memorial Hall in his honor.

October 12, 1945 - Pfc. Desmond Doss became the first conscientious objector ever to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Doss, a Seventh Day Adventist, enlisted in 1942 but refused to carry a rifle or train on Saturdays. On the island of Okinawa, under heavy Japanese fire, he saved the lives of 75 sick and wounded soldiers by lowering them, one by one, down a 400-foot cliff.
#DesmondDoss#MedalOfHonor
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Nonilex

At the same time, #Trump has repeatedly badmouthed the sacrifices of American #ServiceMembers. In 2015, he mocked the late Sen #JohnMcCain (R) for his time as a #POW, saying, “I like people who weren’t captured, & earlier this month said the civilian Presidential Medal of Freedom was “much better” than the #military #MedalOfHonor because those who received the latter were “either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets, or they’re dead.”

#law #USpol
#HarrisWalz2024

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Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈

#DonaldTrump #flippant #remarks About the #MedalofHonor #Inspires #Vets to #Anger.

The former president #denigrated #CongressionalMedalofHonor #recipients in an effort to #butterup a #wealthy #donor. Trump stated the Presidential #MedalofFreedom was “much better” than the military’s top award, because those awarded the latter are, in his words, “ … either in #verybadshape because they’ve been hit so many times by #bullets or they’re #dead.”

whowhatwhy.org/cartoon/donald-

WhoWhatWhy · Donald Trump Inspires Vets With Comments About the Medal of Honor - WhoWhatWhyThe former president denigrated Medal of Honor recipients in an effort to butter up a wealthy donor.
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

@w7voa

Trump does not understand self-sacrifice. Trump considers any action taken that does not serve the self to be a waste of effort.

It's why he sees the Medal of Freedom as "actually much better" than the #MedalOfHonor. You don't have to risk any harm to yourself to get it.

It's the same reason that #Trump refers to those who serve in the military as "suckers" and "losers"

Trump sees serving the greater good as a stupid thing to do. In Trump's mind, being self-serving is a virtue.

Text from article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/16/trump-medal-of-honor-much-better/ “It’s actually much better because everyone gets the Congressional Medal of Honor,” Trump said. “They’re soldiers. They're either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets or they’re dead. [Adelson] gets it, and she’s a healthy, beautiful woman. They’re rated equal, but she got the Presidential Medal of Freedom and she got it through committees and everything else.”
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

"“For him to insult #MedalOfHonor recipients, just as he has previously attacked #GoldStar families, mocked #prisoners of war, and referred to those who lost their lives in service to our country as ‘suckers’ and ‘losers,’ should remind all #Americans that we owe it to our service members, our country, and our future to make sure #DonaldTrump is never our nation’s commander in chief again,” Harris-Walz campaign spokesperson Sarafina Chitika said."
washingtonpost.com/politics/20

Text from article: Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign denounced Trump’s latest comment, saying in a statement Friday that he “knows nothing about service to anyone or anything but himself.” “For him to insult Medal of Honor recipients, just as he has previously attacked Gold Star families, mocked prisoners of war, and referred to those who lost their lives in service to our country as ‘suckers’ and ‘losers,’ should remind all Americans that we owe it to our service members, our country, and our future to make sure Donald Trump is never our nation’s commander in chief again,” Harris-Walz campaign spokesperson Sarafina Chitika said.
#Trump#Dishonor#News
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The Video Game Library 📚

ANOTHER book with "Sun Tzu" in the title graces
#TheVideoGameLibrary
🤯

Stretching from 3000 BC to today (2006), this book investigates how military cultures and the evolution of
#VideoGames
have been closely linked.

Find more here: thevideogamelibrary.org

#GameStudies #War #VideoGame #VideoGames #Game #Gaming #Gamer #Strategy #Military #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #SunTzu #COD #CallOfDury #MedalOfHonor #Battlefield #FPS

The image is a book cover for "From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Video Games" by Ed Halter. The cover combines imagery of ancient warfare, represented by a statue of the Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu, with modern warfare, depicted by a soldier with a rifle, possibly from a contemporary video game. The background features a hazy, war-torn landscape, with the silhouette of a fortress on a hill. The title alludes to the connection between historical concepts of war strategy, such as those written by Sun Tzu in "The Art of War," and their influence on modern war-themed video games. The cover suggests that the book explores the relationship and impact of military theory and practice on the development and content of war-based video games.
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Tom - KB9ENS

Citation for his Medal of Honor says in part:

"Though assigned to duty as gunnery instructor and neither required nor expected to perform combat duty, Major Bong voluntarily and at his own urgent request engaged in repeated combat missions, including unusually hazardous sorties over Balikapan, Borneo, and in the Leyte area of the Philippines. His aggressiveness and daring resulted in his shooting down eight enemy airplanes during this period.
catalog.archives.gov/id/572775

"Major Richard I. Bong. O433684, Air Corps, United States Army. For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action above and beyond the call of duty in the southwest Pacific Area from 10 October to 15 November 1944. Though assigned to duty as gunnery instructor and neither required nor expected to perform combat duty, Major Bong voluntarily and at his own urgent request engaged in repeated combat missions, including unusually hazardous sorties over Balikapan, Borneo, and in the Leyte area of the Philippines. His aggressiveness and daring resulted in his shooting down eight enemy airplanes during this period."
#DickBong#MedalOfHonor
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