Conspiracy Theory Of The Week
Commander Rapaport needs our help! I got an email (described in detail here) from a guy who claims, among other things, to have gotten ì4-5 Congressional Medals Of Honor.î I love this. If you believe his claim, Congress is now tossing them around like popcorn. I like that heís not quite sure of exactly how many heís gotten. Four to five? Something in that neighborhood.
Me: Nobody has "four to five" Congressional Medals Of Honor. Please prey on somebody who'll believe your story. That person is not me.
ìThe Commanderî emails back: If this case was not at least partially on the level do you think I would be walking around and alive and with out lawsuits. Piece of shit excuse for a news reporter.
Me: I'm not Woodward and Bernstein, you idiot. I'm not even a reporter. Some CIA dude. Note that I'm called "The Advice Goddess," and I write a humorous (I hope) love advice column. This is not top-secret information. There's a big, long bio page on my Web site.
If geniuses like this are indeed working for the CIA, it's no wonder they can't find Osama Bin Laden.
Me: Nobody has "four to five" Congressional Medals Of Honor. Please prey on somebody who'll believe your story. That person is not me.
Four or five? Besides the fact that no one has that many -- as far as I know, no one has more than two (there are 19 double recipients of the 3400+) -- most of them are awarded posthumously. Besides having more than anyone, he's also beaten the odds by still being alive to claim them. Tell him that I sincerely hope that he gets another one very soon, and that he too, will have the distinction of getting it posthumously. In other words, DROP DEAD! As a veteran myself, I take umbrage at the fact that he is being so disrespectful of those Medal of Honor recipients by claiming to be one, and making such outrageous claims.
Patrick at August 20, 2003 5:44 PM
You are quite right. Despite my claiming myself to be no Woodward and Bernstein, I looked up The Congressional Medal Of Honor before I posted this, and found that there are only a few people who have received it twice:
http://www.cmohs.org/recipients/double.htm
(Amy Alkon) at August 20, 2003 5:56 PM