Comments for Today's Medal of Honor Moment for 7 December 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/2009/12/todays_medal_of_192.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:09:53 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Today's Medal of Honor Moment for 7 December http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/12/todays_medal_of_192.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/12/todays_medal_of_192.html Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:58:39 -0600 Comment from BillT on 2009-12-08 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/12/todays_medal_of_192.html#comment-96175 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/12/todays_medal_of_192.html#comment-96175 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:09:52 -0600 Comment from AgPilot60 on 2009-12-08 I guess I'm wrong, but I seem to remember a black cook by the name of Dorey that manned an AA gun and was awarded the MOH. He was KIA not long later. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/12/todays_medal_of_192.html#comment-96173 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/12/todays_medal_of_192.html#comment-96173 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:46:46 -0600 Comment from Tim on 2009-12-07 http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/12/lt_john_william_finn_pearl_har.asp]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/12/todays_medal_of_192.html#comment-96167 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/12/todays_medal_of_192.html#comment-96167 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:36:53 -0600 Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-12-07
One of the criteria is that the Medal is not awarded for doing something that if you didn't do it, you would be subject to censure by your fellow warriors. 

I think here we can make the assumption that other officers, who may or may not have been there, gave them credit for staying at their posts when, had they left, they would not have been criticized for doing so.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/12/todays_medal_of_192.html#comment-96166 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/12/todays_medal_of_192.html#comment-96166 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:36:00 -0600 Comment from USMC Steve on 2009-12-07
The other citations were pretty clear in what the men who carried out the actions did, but not these two. ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/12/todays_medal_of_192.html#comment-96162 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/12/todays_medal_of_192.html#comment-96162 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:37:26 -0600