Category: Military issues

Anon in Jax sends us a link to BBC which reports that those folks who want complete acceptance of trans-gender issues in the military are using that manning dude, whatever his first name is today, to get the military to accept transsexuals and those who are confused about their sexual identity. They try to make it sound like its all for poor Bradley, but that’s not the case at all.

It’s like when the stank-ass hippies at ANSWER stood up veterans in Iraq Veterans Against the War in the front ranks of their protests like mannequins to steal their credibility for their little protests. You know, whether they were actually veterans of the Iraq War or not.

[Manning’s lawyer, Nancy Hollander] said recent reports in the US media that military officials were considering transferring Pte Manning to a federal civilian prison for treatment of gender dysphoria was “not really a positive sign”.

“To some extent it’s a trick,” Ms Hollander said. “This was leaked information from someone at the Pentagon, which is of course ironic since I doubt anyone is going to be prosecuted for that leak, but [Manning] won’t be safe in a federal prison.”

She said that Pte Manning had not suffered harassment at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, even though her fellow inmates knew she was transgender.

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“The government simply has to recognise this, to recognise there’s no reason why transgender people can’t serve in the military like anyone else,” Ms Hollander said.

She added that if military officials were not forthcoming with treatment, Pte Manning “may have to file a lawsuit to require the prison to provide the treatment it needs to provide”.

“It’s a copout by the military to say [Manning] has to move to a federal prison.”

So, like those morons at the the National Lawyer Guild, that historically communist organization that has tried to use every war to undermine the US military with the veteran anti-war movement, this Hollander woman sees an opportunity to advance the transgender agenda in the Pentagon. It’s not about Manning at all, it’s about the acceptance of the transgender lifestyle choice, you know like what the end of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy did for “regular” gays.

Volumes have been written on the Medal of Honor and those few who have earned it.  Doug Sterner at  Home of Hero’s knows more about this topic than probably any other living person.  In the past few days I have thought allot about what it takes to even be considered.  I have thought about the politics, but most of all I have thought about what happens to the men after the award is hung around their neck.

George Patton said “I’d sell my immortal soul for that Medal”

Harry Truman said ”  “I would rather have the blue band of the Medal of Honor around my neck than to be President.”

To a man they all will say they are not Hero’s. Every person they say that to disagrees and say’s but you are.   They are often the most reserved and quite people in the room.   They come from all walks of life, every ethnic background and every social level. The one thing they all have in common is that they, in a moment of terror that would make most cower placed the value of another man’s life above the value of their own.

I can promise that not a single person that ever earned the MOH wanted it. To them they did what was needed at that instant without any other thought than protecting life, even if it meant they had to take lives to do so.

They did what they did, it is talked about mulled over, sometimes forgotten and brought up again.  People are interviewed and a complete picture of the action is put together. Months, years, decades and sometimes the remainder of a mans life goes by.  Then they are notifies that they are to be given the MOH. They are invited to the white house and the President says some words and hangs the MOH on them.

 Their names are said with awe. Building are named for them. They are asked to give speeches and to show up at at Presidential inaugurations.  They will eat more bad chicken dinners at Rotary Clubs,  Lions Clubs  and every every other club of civic groups who name is on every welcome sign in every small town in America.  They will hear the tale of their Heroism told time and again.  They go to schools to give talks, they answer every question as if it were the first time it was asked and not the hundredth or thousandth.  They have sore hands from all the firm handshakes but they always go out of their way to make sure everyone knows they were not alone, that they are not heroes.  That any man in that position would do the same things. 

They travel, very often at their own expense  to give talks or be at events. They get request for autographs, photographs ect. They have said that it is easier to earn the MOH than it is to wear it.

These men rarely if ever profit from the Medal. They understand that while they may be one of the few to ever wear the MOH it really belongs to the nation.  They know that they are the voice for every person who ever put on a uniform.  There are very few men alive who can wear the Medal.  Its physical weight is only a few ounces,  its weight in responsibility to the nation is measurable.   Yet every man wear it with the pride of the nation and the dignity of a true Hero.

Doug Sterner calls the men who earned the Medal National Treasures, that somehow does not seem like enough, but  I cant come up with a better term either.

 

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