We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/breaking_medals.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:53:38 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification ...but it was news to me. Nope - not John Kerry tossing someone else's medals over a fence at the Pentagon and breaking them in a bold protest against the man. New Year 2007, troops at the top of PT Hill, Bamyan, Afghanistan. Photo courtesy the New Zealand Defense Forces. It's a headline from the New Zealand Defense Forces website, under which they announce honors on their website. I was tickled by the way it sounded. The Kiwis have a vewy vewy small Army. But fulla vewy vewy tough soldiers. Despite the absolute joke of a government they are suffering... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/breaking_medals.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/breaking_medals.html Tue, 03 Apr 2007 08:28:22 -0600 Good form. Both to John for posting, and MAJ Childs (and the BSM thingy). http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/breaking_medals.html#comment-58530 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/breaking_medals.html#comment-58530 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:49:15 -0600 These are the kinds of stories I'd really like to hear more of. I'd like to be able to have my children read about the brave deeds that go on every day in Afghanistan and Iraq. I'd like to have them meet the living heroes and to honor those heroes while they can hear us applaud. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/breaking_medals.html#comment-58528 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/breaking_medals.html#comment-58528 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:31:27 -0600 Well the SAS have more to wear these days but they can be kind of slack about uniform. Even if they aren't no one has generally over come with the sudden urge to tell them what to do. The approval of wearing foreign decorations is the responsibility of the Queen anyway, not Hammas Helen. Although Clark could stop it she would be going against tradition and it would be impossible to justify and draw attention to the fact that we have troops there. She already has one green party loose unit claiming our soldier took part in torture of prisoners. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/breaking_medals.html#comment-58526 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/breaking_medals.html#comment-58526 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:22:58 -0600 I just hope the Kiwis don't have the same sort of problems with their own army after having won U.S. decorations that we saw in the Canadian Army. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/breaking_medals.html#comment-58524 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/breaking_medals.html#comment-58524 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:42:38 -0600