Farmington Medal of Honor Memorial to be unveiled Saturday

Why all this glorification of war around here? What we need is a Peace Memorial, instead.

I don't think that showing respect for those who died for our country is glorification of war in any way at all. The peace that you refer to is not a given in life- it always
must be fought for and won.

We need both. I am fine with honoring heros and Vets. I agree we need to promote peace!

The Medal of Honor is less about the glorification of war, than the valor of those who serve.. it's a fine line I know. Remember the old line about old men who send young men to die?? It's about the young men, some, like Worley so young that they aren't even quite grown men yet. But in an instant they make a decision, based not on high ideals necessarily , but on simply protecting and defending the life's of those around them, and that makes them extraordinary heros.

Bruce Salisbury has much to be proud of in his life.. but this monument is a testament to him as well.. and a dogged determination to see a young man honored in his own hometown. I'm proud of you Bruce....

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Our forefathers and foremothers fought for national independence so we could all have the rights to independence, liberty, and freedom. They all came together and fought for this one cause. I think about the concept of freedom, I think how many men have fallen through the years. How many died on foreign Soil, How many mothers ' tears? How many pilots ' planes Shot down? How many died at sea, How many foxholes were soldiers Graves? I think just how many times That Taps had meant ' Amen,'When a flag had draped a Coffin of a brother or a friend. I think of all the Children, Of the mothers and the wives, Of fathers, sons and Husbands With interrupted lives. I think about a graveyard At the bottom of the sea, Of unmarked graves in Arlington. I think of all the Americans, not only those decorated, that have sacrificed so that others could be liberated and free. No, freedom is not free. Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for us, Jesus Christ and the American GI, one died for our soul, the other died for our freedom.
Now the Social Democrats, successfully seeking dominant power, have subjugated the people by naming ethnic and sexual classes into what they refer to as minorities (primarily Blacks, Women, Hispanics); divided the citizens into financial classes which they refer to as: lower, middle and upper; divided environmentalists into classes which they refer to as green (earthly) and industry; divided marriage into classes which they refer to as same sex and opposite sex; and divided religion into classes which they refer to as No-God and God, pro-choice and pro-life.
And yet, although politically classified and setup to be deceived, we the people, with the exception of the illegal’s , predominantly have fought, or are decedents of those that have fought, for freedom. Blood and the will for true freedom are stronger than the Socialist Democrat’s subjugate actions and deceitful coercive persuasion. The Democrats will find out that earthly is not divine, for there is no insanity greater than electing a passively submissive pathological narcissist as president who wants to bring the Guantanamo terrorists to American shores. Who wants the redistribution of income - No what he really wants is to bring America to our financial knees!
'Woe to those who call evil good',that is exactly what Socialist Liberal Democrats have done. 

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America's oldest living Medal of Honor recipient, living his 101st year is former enlisted Chief Petty Officer, Aviation Chief Ordnanceman (ACOM), later wartime commissioned Lieutenant John W. Finn, U. S. Navy (Ret.). He is also the last surviving Medal of Honor, "The Day of Infamy", Japanese Attack on the Hawaiian Islands, Naval Air Station, Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, 7 December 1941.

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