Medal of Honor Mistake for Obama Shows His Opinion of the Military

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Last Thursday at Fort Drum, President Obama was addressing troops from the 10th Mountain Division. He told them that he previously had the great honor of seeing some of them "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."

Obama remembered wrongly. Sgt. 1st Class Jared Monti was actually killed in Afghanistan on June 21, 2006. In September 2009, President Obama awarded him the Medal of Honor posthumously.

The Medal of Honor is not something one should easily forget. One would think that, especially considering how few are awarded, Obama would remember the circumstances of each ceremony - especially his first.

We must then ask ourselves, "Why did Obama so easily forget that the first Medal of Honor award he had awarded to a service member was done posthumously?"

The reason is along the same lines of why Hillary Clinton banned military uniforms in the White House, and then later lied about it.

Like Hillary, Barry Obama holds disdain for the United States Military. When you hate something, like Obama hates our armed services, it may be easy to forget the details of things you do in regards to your duties regarding those military forces.

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