Butch1940
Member
Posted Sun 14 May 2006 06:03
RE:
http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,97017,00.html
Well good for him. Tell me why it takes so damn
long for these people to get these awards that
they have earned.
Posts: 57 | Registered: Thu 28 December 2000
Kehmina
Moderator At Large
Posted Sun 14 May 2006 06:24
The criteria surrounding the presenting of our nation's highest award is very stringent.
Sometimes the Medal of Honor is presented within a couple of years after the heroic action, sometimes it's presented a couple of decades later.
It's just a matter of investigating and compiling all of the facts...eyewitnesses, after-action reports, et al...the investigation process is extremely thorough.
You are invited to go to this site:
www.medalofhonor.com
This site is jam-packed with any and all information that will help you out.
Posts: 139 | Registered: Tue 25 April 2006
1863848
Basic Training
Posted Mon 15 May 2006 09:53
It was a different time and I am glad to see that they are not totally forgotten!
Posts: 3 | Registered: Wed 20 July 2005
http://forums.military.com/groupee/f.../9600007760001
*TOMICH, PETER
Rank and organization: Chief Watertender, U.S. Navy. Born: 3 June 1893, Prolog, Austria. Accredited to: New Jersey. Citation: For distinguished conduct in the line of his profession, and extraordinary courage and disregard of his own safety, during the attack on the Fleet in Pearl Harbor by the Japanese forces on 7 December 1941. Although realizing that the ship was capsizing, as a result of enemy bombing and torpedoing, Tomich remained at his post in the engineering plant of the U.S.S. Utah, until he saw that all boilers were secured and all fireroom personnel had left their stations, and by so doing lost his own life .
http://www.medalofhonor.com/WorldWarIIT-U.htm