Chapman

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wa...avy-seal-now-hell-receive-the-medal-of-honor/

No greater hero.
Selfless sacrifice from a man/soldier, making the ultimate sacrifice, in a unwinnable war.

Words cannot honor.

Failure to address a ‘situation’ in a timely fashion.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Wilson's_War


Most people don't know the historical reference "Graveyard of Empires" when looking at Afghanistan.....Tribal warfare willing to sell each other out to the momentary highest bidder.....

And, yes.....He was a hero....Fought for an hour, wounded and left for dead inadvertantly.....And then, to keep a helicopter from being shot down, walked into the line of fire from a machine gun....deliberately.....

American troops are the best in the world......
 
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