Live feed for SSG Giunta’s Award Ceremony
At about 1400 local time, the ceremony for SSG Giunta’s award will begin. Here’s the live feed from the White House if you want to witness history.
“There are no extraordinary men…just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.” Admiral William Frederick (Bull) Halsey Jr.
Category: Military issues
It auto plays and I can’t stop it. Not that I DON’T want to watch it, but, I’m at work, so……
Is it just me or does Obama not seem overly cofortable with this whole presentation?
un comfortable….he looks like he’d rather be someplace else….
*comfortable
That was pretty cool, thanks for the feed Jonn.
Damn,
Powerful, damned powerful. Thank you so very much for the feed Jonn. Trapped at work today and I was afraid I wouldn’t get to see it. Now I gotta hide out in my cubicle till I can get the ‘dust’ out of my eye, lol.
What an incredible inspiration.
I liked the actual presentation and citation. What I didn’t enjoy was listening to 0bama ramble on. His teleprompter must not have been working properly because he stumbled and faltered in his speech. It also seemed to me that he wasn’t really “into” presenting the award. It was like, “Aww, ma, do I hafta??”
It was difficult to watch Obama presenting the award but I soon found that it was easy to dismiss him as inconsequential. After all, in that White House room were the parents of the two men KIA, the remaining troopers who were on that October patrol, and the dozens of MOH winners who were there to welcome SSG Giunta to their club. It is said that the US Senate is the most exclusive club in the world. Whoever coined that expression never considered the Medal of Honor winners. Airborne!
I was glad to see the ceremony even though at one time I started to get irked when it looked by PrezBo was going on another one of his shout outs strings. Somebody needs to teach him how to do that in a more dignified manner. It was important to recognize those in attendance but I was having a flashback to his little briefing right after the Ft Hood shootings. Of course on the other hand he has gotten easy to ignore and by using selective listening I was able to enjoy the ceremony.
I couldn’t imagine being in SSG Guinta’s shoes. I beat during the whole thing with all the cameras, the dignitaries and families of those affected in attendance I bet he thought his actions on the battlefield were easier.
I have deeply mixed feeling about this award. Not because SSG Giunta doesn’t deserve it (not remotely), but I am concerned about the change in the political climate that prompted it.
Those of us that have met Bells, for instance, have to speculate?
It does, however, amount to passing the torch. The first MOH since Vietnam is a non-trivial benchmark.
It’s not a scoreboard, but it does mark something us old farts can’t ignore.
Bless SSG Giunta and those others he refers to.
You’re right, Pons. When you can’t get an MOH for clearing a building in Falujah with a Gerber Multi-tool, kinda makes you wonder what the standard is.
I watched this early today. It does really inspire you-“There were Giants in those days… there are Giants in these days.”-