It seems that DT is digging to find people to give medals.

[LiberalFighter]

This time it was posthumous to a person from WWI.

[spanone]

1. he needs to be on television 24/7

[John Fante]

2. Gump spoke to the parents of many WWI veterans.

This is his way of saying thanks.

[Iggo]

3. He only helps dead people. (n/t)

[Yonnie3]

4. He's working his way up to the Bone Spur Exceptional Valor Cross

Awarded to anyone who managed to avoid the draft and enure the pain of playing tennis with bone spurs in their heels.

[Ilsa]

5. I had wondered the same thing.

I figured the little old lady in the wheelchair was probably the granddaughter of the honoree.

I guess there will be a Civil War hero to e honored next week to show everyone how much he l9ves the military.

[malchickiwick]

6. Really?? Going after a legitimate hero of World War TWO?? The medal has been in the works for years.

and that was his widow, BTW.

Yes, the dotard is an evil liddle fascist, but please don't use that as an excuse to disparage real patriots.

He put his life on the line to rescue his entire brigade from advancing Nazis; if anything he should be a message of everything we need to be doing today.

Edit to add: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garlin_Murl_Conner

We are better than this DU

[struggle4progress]

9. +

[TomSlick]

10. Agreed. Bad form.

Doing the right thing late is better than not doing the right thing at all.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. Has he run out of people to give pardons to?

That was his favorite "Executive Time" activity for a hot minute.

[struggle4progress]

8. ... Conner .. could see his unit was in danger of being overrun and volunteered ..

to ensure U.S. artillery was hitting the German positions not entirely visible from behind the front lines. The soldier – already injured in the hip from sniper fire in an earlier engagement – grabbed a telephone, unspooling the wire that connected it to his commander’s telephone, and dashed 400 yards forward, passing his battalion’s defensive position .. Conner continued another 30 yards past the line, maneuvering through a field of artillery fire before diving into a snowy, shallow ditch from where he could observe the enemy formation ... Conner spent the next three hours laying in that ditch, directing American artillery fire as swarms of German soldiers moved toward his battalion ... When his position was eventually spotted by the German soldiers closing within some 10 yards of him, Conner remained calm. He called in fire on his own position, fearing if the Germans near him moved forward they would decimate the U.S. soldiers behind him ...
https://www.stripes.com/news/wwii-army-lieutenant-who-called-artillery-fire-onto-his-position-will-receive-medal-of-honor-1.534710

[former9thward]

11. Get your wars right if you are going to attack military heroes. .

It was WW II not WW I. Did you complain when Obama and other presidents awarded the Medal of Honor to posthumous recipients of past wars?

http://militaryoneclick.com/heres-every-medal-honor-recipient-obama-honored-presidency/