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 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/10/a_medal_of_hono.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:12:04 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification In the 18 October Medal of Honor post, I made the following observation:In the first 50 years of the Medal's history - 98 percent went to living recipients. There are many reasons for this, not least among them was that the whole concept of medals like this was new, and it just didn't occur to people to award them to dead men. When I graduated from high school, there were 293 living recipients of the Medal. In July 2008, the Census Bureau reported the population of the United States to be 304,059,724 people. Only 95 of them hold the Medal... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/10/a_medal_of_hono.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/10/a_medal_of_hono.html Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:01:41 -0600
The men may die, but their memory and indomitable spirit are immortal so long as we keep them.
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