{"id":58482,"date":"2015-02-28T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58482"},"modified":"2015-02-28T00:59:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T05:59:29","slug":"tah-in-the-news-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58482","title":{"rendered":"TAH in the news"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, our post yesterday about Chris Kyle and the proposal to enable President Obama to award him a Medal of Honor made the Washington Post<\/a> and The Hill<\/a>. The Post quotes us;<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are hundreds of members of the military whose martial biographies are similar, but they don\u2019t have a best selling book and a blockbuster movie, and I get the feeling that is the only reason that Williams is going through all of this because of Kyle\u2019s name recognition,\u201d Lilyea wrote. \u201cThe Routh trial and the success of the movie about Kyle are intersecting at the Medal of Honor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lilyea said the legislation seems like a political stunt.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no effort to get him the award while he was alive, before there was a book, before there was a movie,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m not saying that he doesn\u2019t deserve the award, but I\u2019m thinking that he would be the first to disabuse folks of the notion.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And from The Hill. I spent a half-hour or so on the phone with the lovely Kristina Wong;<\/p>\n

Lilyea said the veterans groups have battled to get service members like Marine Corps Sgt. Rafael Peralta and Army Sgt. 1st Class Alwyn C. Cashe — who the Medal of Honor, and it’s been a difficult fight. <\/p>\n

Rather, it should be up to the Navy to decide if Kyle should be awarded a Medal of Honor, not the president. The Navy has already honored Kyle with two Silver Stars — two levels below the Medal of Honor — and five Bronze stars with V device with valor, he said. <\/p>\n

“That’s what they decided he deserved in the Navy, and that probably should be the extent of it,” he said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Hill also quoted a Facebook commenter.<\/p>\n

But my final thought on the whole subject is that if they want to give him a lifetime achievement award, the Legion of Merit is much more appropriate than the Medal of Honor. It only highlights the fact that Congress should be a part time job, they spend too much time thinking up stuff they can screw up that are outside their lanes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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