mnottertail
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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u Okay,let us grant all you have postulated......Meyer was still the guy running out and dragging the wounded and dead onto that truck.....for my money that alone explains the difference in the decorations awarded....again only my opinion. One more thing though,in the defense Dept computer recreation Meyer's avatar was exposed from the chest up as the truck made it's multiple transit of the shooting gallery.I certainly do not mean to split hairs here and to in anyway denigrate the actions or risks run by the winner of a Navy Cross.....which really isn't chopped liver ...not in the least Yeah, I cuff some money to a couple of wounded vets at my shop, it is complicated but the government is really putting the fucks to them. The deal is that these gunners arent in real tanks but on humvees and they get blown out of the turret (they are really lightweight and exposed when the iud rocks their world, the under plating helps the driver but the turret is out in the open, they are running in humvees (think real lightweight halftracks like the krauts used ww2 huntie) anyway, medals are cute and shit as you know, but it dont bring back the dead.
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