Posthumous... Not posthumous... Whatever...

     Okay... so I will weigh in on yesterday's fiasco at Fort Drum, where the president told the Army's 10th Mountain Division, "Throughout my service, first as a senator and then as a presidential candidate and then as a President, I've always run into you guys. And for some reason it's always in some rough spots. First time I saw 10th Mountain Division, you guys were in southern Iraq. When I went back to visit Afghanistan, you guys were the first ones there. I had the great honor of seeing some of you because a comrade of yours, Jared Monti, was the first person who I was able to award the Medal of Honor to who actually came back and wasn't receiving it posthumously."
     The problem is that Jared Monti died in Afghanistan, and did, in fact, receive the medal posthumously. The president had "recalled" stories about him at a White House ceremony with his parents present.
     Salvatore Giunta was the one who was the first living recipient of the Medal who served in Afghanistan. The president gave a speech all about that at the time, where he recounted his whole emotional story. And yet, he did not know it.
     That's because when you only read someone else's words on a teleprompter, it simply goes in through the eyes and out through the mouth... and misses the heart altogether.
     He never made a connection with these men. He could not remember them in his heart.
     Mr. President... If you are going to pretend to be one of the guys... at least get your story straight.
     This was not the first time the president didn't know the details surrounding this honor. Remember when he (sort of) delivered remarks about the Fort Hood shootings at the end of a tribal leaders conference? He began by giving a shout-out to Dr. Joe Medicine Crow, ..."I hear that Dr. Joe Medicine Crow (ph) was around, and so I want to give a shout out to that Congressional Medal of Honor winner. It's good to see you."
     Obama actually had presented Crow with the Medal of Freedom, and not the Medal of Honor.
     The Medal of Honor is the highest award for valor in action against an enemy force which can be bestowed upon an individual serving in the Armed Services of the United States. Generally presented to its recipient by the President of the United States of America in the name of Congress, it is often called the Congressional Medal of Honor.
     The Medal of Freedom is the nation's highest civilian honor.
     The reason the president doesn't know these things is because he doesn't care to.
     And by the way... Am I the only one who cringes with the president's choice of the word comrade? And czars, for that matter? Read the history of those words and decide for yourself. 
     Those terms, I am sure, he knows well... and are firmly planted in his heart.