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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nVolumes have been written on the Medal of Honor and those few who have earned it. \u00a0Doug Sterner at \u00a0Home of Hero’s knows more about this topic than probably any other living person. \u00a0In the past few days I have thought allot about what it takes to even be considered. \u00a0I 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.<\/p>\n
George Patton said “I’d sell my immortal soul for that Medal”<\/p>\n
Harry Truman said ” \u00a0“I would rather have the blue band of the Medal of Honor around my neck than to be President.”<\/p>\n
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. \u00a0 They are often the most reserved and quite people in the room. \u00a0 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
They did what they did, it is talked about mulled over, sometimes forgotten and brought up again. \u00a0People 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. \u00a0Then 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.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Their names are said with awe. Building are named for them. They are asked to give speeches and to show up at at Presidential inaugurations. \u00a0They will eat more bad chicken dinners at Rotary Clubs, \u00a0Lions Clubs \u00a0and every every other club of civic groups who name is on every welcome sign in every small town in America. \u00a0They will hear the tale of their Heroism told time and again. \u00a0They 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. \u00a0They 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. \u00a0That any man in that position would do the same things.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n They travel, very often at their own expense \u00a0to 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.<\/p>\n 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. \u00a0They know that they are the voice for every person who ever put on a uniform. \u00a0There are very few men alive who can wear the Medal. \u00a0Its physical weight is only a few ounces, \u00a0its weight in responsibility to the nation is measurable. \u00a0 Yet every man wear it with the pride of the nation and the dignity of a true Hero.<\/p>\n Doug Sterner calls the men who earned the Medal National Treasures, that somehow does not seem like enough, but \u00a0I cant come up with a better term either.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a92014 This Aint Hell<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"