Hey Tea Party Arseholes...here's what a real Patriot looks like:
Well done, Sir. 
Florida man shocked to learn of Medal of Honor
"Melvin Morris was commanding a strike force on a mission near Chi Lang, South Vietnam, when his Special Forces group came under attack and a fellow commander was killed near an enemy bunker.
Despite massive enemy fire directed at him and his men, hitting him three times, the 72-year-old Morris told The Associated Press on Friday that he was able to get to his fallen comrade and recover the body. He also retrieved a map that included strategic information that would have been trouble if it fell into enemy hands.
More than four decades later, as a way to try to correct potential acts of bias spanning three wars, President Barack Obama will bestow the Medal of Honor on the Florida man and 23 other veterans. They come after a decade-long congressionally mandated review of minorities who may have been passed over for the U.S. military's highest honor because of long-held prejudices.
Morris became one of the first soldiers to don a "green beret" in 1961 and volunteered twice for deployments to Vietnam during the war. After his Sept 17, 1969, ordeal, the then-Staff Sgt. Morris received a Distinguished Service Cross in 1970. He said he never realized that being black might have kept the higher honor from him..."
http://www.theindychannel.com/news/u-s-world/florida-man-shocked-to-learn-of-medal-of-honor
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I feel the people who protested the war are definitely patriots. Their patriotism was especially difficult to display in a different way from the soldiers. Especially since the media and politicians were hyping things as such a just war, speaking of Iraq.
by the way, thanks for a sane discussion without name-calling or hair on fire kind of stuff.
Trying not to make DU suck.
