Medal of Honor

Any history buff will tell you that the medal of honor is esteemed and worth praise by anyone.  During my travel to Hawaii in 2005 I visited the punchbowl cemetery and admired the military dead from the pacific theaters of war.  What I most admired was how many Medal of Honor recipients died while covering grenades to save fellow soldiers.  An incredible and unimaginable act of bravery knowing the face of death would occur.  What I have seen since for this honor is that only 5 military men have received this honor, all posthumously.  When a Bradley Kasal and Rafeal Peralta don't receive this honor for doing the exact same thing, I wonder what is wrong with the system of awards.  Bradley Kasal rolled over on a grenade and barely survived.  Rafeal Peralta did the same and didn't survive.  The 5 men who have received the medal of honor deserve it, but I wonder how select we are being, given that two other men that I know of have done the same thing without the same recognition of bravery and love of country.