The medal that Trump can't give himself
'The bride at every wedding' effect
On October 12, 1945, President Harry S. Truman presented the Congressional Medal of Honor on the South Lawn of the White House to 15 members of the U.S. military who showed valor on the European and Pacific battlefields in the world war that had just ended.
“I would much rather have that Medal around my neck than to be President of the United States,” Truman said. “It is the greatest honor that can come to a man. It is an honor that all of us strive for, but very few of us ever achieve.”
They were just “doing their duty. They didn’t think they were being heroes.”
“Now these young men will go back and become citizens of this great country, and they will make good citizens; and you won’t find any of them bragging about what they have done or what they propose to do.”
That expression of humility was about as far as it is possible to go from the braggadocio of President Donald Trump’s 1…
