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Why Charles J. Loring, Jr.’s Medal of Honor Was Kept Secret

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According to Boynton he told the Japanese that he was an operations officer with very few actual flying hours and almost no combat and that's why he got shot down.

He says towards the end of the war one of the Japanese interrogators walked into the interrogation room with a stack of newspapers and a Life Magazine with stories about how he had just been posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor and how his mother had christened an aircraft carrier in his honor. Apparently they even wrote about his time in the American Volunteer Group

He said he thought that they were going to drag him out right then and there and kill him.
 
Major Loring's selfless sacrifice exemplifies the character of the American fighting man. He is a true hero. On another note, I would think by now that most everyone should know that it is NOT the congressional Medal of Honor. Congress has absolutely NOTHING to do with choosing who is to receive the medal or even has had anything to do with writing the requirements for receiving the medal. Please, let's be accurate. It is the Medal of Honor. Let's not muddy its importance by tacking "congressional" onto it.
 
Vietnam Vet said:
Major Loring's selfless sacrifice exemplifies the character of the American fighting man. He is a true hero. On another note, I would think by now that most everyone should know that it is NOT the congressional Medal of Honor. Congress has absolutely NOTHING to do with choosing who is to receive the medal or even has had anything to do with writing the requirements for receiving the medal. Please, let's be accurate. It is the Medal of Honor. Let's not muddy its importance by tacking "congressional" onto it.
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Boyington specifically called it The Congressional Medal of Honor in his book.

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The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration in the United States Armed Forces. It's awarded to service members who demonstrate acts of valor above and beyond the call of duty. The President presents the medal in the name of Congress.

it seems to me like somebody who professes to be a veteran would know that
 
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The Night Rider said:
Boyington specifically called it The Congressional Medal of Honor in his book.

Additional information

The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration in the United States Armed Forces. It's awarded to service members who demonstrate acts of valor above and beyond the call of duty. The President presents the medal in the name of Congress.

it seems to me like somebody who professes to be a veteran would know that
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Just because "Pappy" Boyington's ghost writer of his book called it the congressional Medal of Honor does not make it so. "The Medal of Honor is the oldest continuously issued combat decoration of the Untited States Armed Forces. The president typically presents the Medal of Honor at a formal ceremony intended to represent the gratitude of the American people, with posthumous presentations made to the primary next of kin. Since you are using what someone wrote in a book as your knowledge concerning the Medal of Honor, I can only assume you are not a veteran, as everyone in the military is educated on not only his/ her job, but military traditions including how to properly wear all the various medals, ribbons, and badges, as well as the history of them. As a veteran I was taught all these things. I may be old now, but I haven't forgotten the things I was taught and learned during my years of service.
 
Vietnam Vet said:
Just because "Pappy" Boyington's ghost writer of his book called it the congressional Medal of Honor does not make it so. "The Medal of Honor is the oldest continuously issued combat decoration of the Untited States Armed Forces. The president typically presents the Medal of Honor at a formal ceremony intended to represent the gratitude of the American people, with posthumous presentations made to the primary next of kin. Since you are using what someone wrote in a book as your knowledge concerning the Medal of Honor, I can only assume you are not a veteran, as everyone in the military is educated on not only his/ her job, but military traditions including how to properly wear all the various medals, ribbons, and badges, as well as the history of them. As a veteran I was taught all these things. I may be old now, but I haven't forgotten the things I was taught and learned during my years of service.
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The medal is normally awarded by the president of the United States (the commander in chief of the armed forces) and is presented "in the name of the United States Congress."
 
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