Tag: medal of honor

The Medal of Honor’s selection process should not be clouded by base concerns and expediency. This nation’s highest military honor should not be tarnished.

Special Forces Senior Medic Lee Martin vividly remembers the first time he saw Green Beret Raul Perez “Roy” Benavidez on May 2, 1968. Benavidez’s bloody, muddy, beaten body was inside a body bag, which was laying on the airstrip at the Loc Ninh Special Forces A Camp A-331 (located near the Cambodian border), waiting to […]

There are those agitating right now to have the Medal of Honor awarded because of a movie. Some are doing so because they are caught up in the hero-worship attached to said movie. Others are doing so as a political statement. Neither motivation is justification for attempting to cheapen the value of the Medal of Honor by […]