Photo op.

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I'm sure it's a photo op, but I don't care. I still think it's a good thing for a President to do, and I'll give him credit for it. I approved him going to Dover the other day as well.

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The idiot Obama could award Purple Hearts to every soldier in this country and it could not erase his despicable behavior for comments on Ft. Hood.
I am outraged and incensed.

I didn't much like W as president, but in this regard he was great. He quietly went to Walter Reed and to Bethesda to meet with sevicemen and their families. The press was NEVER invited. He showed some class. O has none, except for perhaps that, which is described in the song "Movin' On Up" from The Jeffersons.

That's the difference between being an Ivy League legacy and an Ivy League affirmative action student.

While volunteering with the Red Cross in Japan during the Vietnam war, one of my jobs was to meet the helicopters coming in with the wounded and slapping a Purple Heart onto their stretchers...seems strange this this would wait till they got to Walter Reed..also couldn't insure them when patients asked to send them home..no value.

Adding insult to injury.....

And the tears of President Bush were real and genuine--while I was disappointed with him in his second term in so many ways, I consider him to be a genuine caring human being concerning our soldiers and their families.

WHAT A DISGUSTING HYPOCRITE WE HAVE IN THE WHITE HOUSE!!!!!

Obama has always loathed the military. Therefore, when this tragedy happened at Ft. Hood, he didn't care and it showed. Oops, he probably cares for the shooter since he was the poor Muslim victim.

I totally disagree with Poster No. 3 - photo-ops deserve no credit - especially the Dover visit when 17 families refused to allow their children to be used in the obvious photo-op... Photo-ops emphasize the narcissistic nature of this poseur!

And here I thought he had reached the outer limits of disgusting, self-centered posing. . .
Silly me!

It's about consistency and sincerity.

'an hour visiting 26 inpatients and 30 outpatients' ...Gee he sure made an effort to give them his 'undivided attention' /so

What an awful thing to be given a Purple Heart by a man who despises what you do and doesn't believe in and hate the Country you were injured defending.

It's a good thing when the President draws attention to military sacrifice.

It's a bad thing when the inexperienced, insincere, politician that the President is uses the attention to repair his own self-damaged image.

#8, A Purple Heart isn't really "awarded."

This is not recommendation for the medal, there is no board that approves/disapproves it. If you meet the criteria:

wounded by direct enemy action, combat or terrorist,

treated by US medical personnel (severity of wound is not a criterium)

then the Purple Heart is yours, by right.

The unit/personnel shop verifies the above and issues a Personnel Action Form, which goes in your records, and Supply gives you your medal.

But people do like to have someone in authority hand it to them.

#18 confirms my initial thought, that the military wounded at Ft. Hood have the right to Purple Hearts also.

Waiting...........

#18 During my time in Viet Nam our objective was not to receive,be awarded or in any way get a Purple Heart, no matter who was passing them out,... the exception was the hero of great Cambodian Christmas campaign of 1968 Jocque Carriee. Funny thing, I was there all of 1968 and never saw him once,even when he won the war.

I bet he leaned down and whispered in the recipient's ear, "Uhh, it's Bush's fault."

#20, and from looking at Jon Carry's records posted online during that election, only two of his Purple Hearts even reasonably fulfill the paper conditions for getting them.

19, They added the terrorist part after that nightclub in Germany got blown up by terrorists in the 1980s. And yes, if they decide the gunman (I refuse to dignify this person with name, and especially, rank) was a terrorist, they will be eligible. Big IF.

And to receive a Purple Heart from, no matter what you call it, enemy action IN the US....