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Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 1:29 am
by Willhelm Gruber II
i say give it to him

Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 2:01 am
by DXTR
I say why not award the Medal of Honour to Captain John H Miller 2. ranger batt., C Coy?

I mean, his exploits at Ramelle were extraordinary....

Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 5:07 am
by pzrmeyer2
DXTR wrote:I say why not award the Medal of Honour to Captain John H Miller 2. ranger batt., C Coy?

I mean, his exploits at Ramelle were extraordinary....
Do you think Pvt Ryan should get one too?

Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 5:54 am
by DXTR
pzrmeyer2 wrote:
DXTR wrote:I say why not award the Medal of Honour to Captain John H Miller 2. ranger batt., C Coy?

I mean, his exploits at Ramelle were extraordinary....
Do you think Pvt Ryan should get one too?
No, unlike Miller he spent most of the battle in a crater....

Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 5:58 am
by pzrmeyer2
DXTR wrote:
pzrmeyer2 wrote:
DXTR wrote:I say why not award the Medal of Honour to Captain John H Miller 2. ranger batt., C Coy?

I mean, his exploits at Ramelle were extraordinary....
Do you think Pvt Ryan should get one too?
No, unlike Miller he spent most of the battle in a crater....
What should we give Upham? and how about Rafe the pilot from Pearl Harbor?

Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 6:13 am
by DXTR
pzrmeyer2 wrote:
DXTR wrote:
pzrmeyer2 wrote:
DXTR wrote:I say why not award the Medal of Honour to Captain John H Miller 2. ranger batt., C Coy?

I mean, his exploits at Ramelle were extraordinary....
Do you think Pvt Ryan should get one too?
No, unlike Miller he spent most of the battle in a crater....
What should we give Upham? and how about Rafe the pilot from Pearl Harbor?
First of all, I think Lando Calrissian deserves one too....

Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 7:07 am
by Rajin Cajun
Having read Winters biography I can tell you he wouldn't want the Medal it wasn't about medals for him. Just sounds like a bunch of groupies who went to get him the Medal...though its pretty stupid to do that via petition. :?

Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 7:58 am
by DXTR
Rajin Cajun wrote:Having read Winters biography I can tell you he wouldn't want the Medal it wasn't about medals for him. Just sounds like a bunch of groupies who went to get him the Medal...though its pretty stupid to do that via petition. :?
I have all the respect for Winters, although BoB is my only source. I find it troubeling that popular culture and Hollywood should have a hand in who is a hero or not. That is precisely why I asked for Tom Hanks' character Miller in SPR to get a medal.

But all too often we find that "heroes" are not just celebrated for their actions alone, but how profitable they are to the propaganda industry.

But anyway, RC I think you are spot on calling them groupies.....

Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 6:11 pm
by pzrmeyer2
First of all, I think Lando Calrissian deserves one too....
What about Wedge and those other 2 X and Y wing pilots leaving the first Death Star? Luke and the MF crew got those gold medals afterward. I mean, what did Chewie do to deserve it more than those pilots?

Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 6:19 pm
by phylo_roadking
Yep, big shiny Republican medal for Wedge Antilles and Porkins - but not Biggs cos he was a d1ckhe@d.......