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Toronto
04-01-2006, 12:43 AM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060329/ap_on_re_us/obit_bleak
read the bio...
Zot09
04-01-2006, 02:13 AM
Sad to hear, I hope he rests in peace. This guy really was a real life Rambo, and deffinitly deserved the Medal of Honor that he was bestowed with.
gis
04-01-2006, 05:09 AM
what a dude,he definately earned that medal of honor.may eh rest in peace
Mattk
04-01-2006, 05:14 AM
Bleak died Thursday at Lost Rivers District Hospital in Arco of complications from emphysema, Parkinson's disease and diabetes, family members said.

A terrible death that men as good as him don't deserve.
ae86_16v
04-01-2006, 01:21 PM
Yeah, that was a lot of shit happening to him (sickness wise). RIP.

It seems like the Medal of Honor is a bit easier (if that is the right word) to award than the Victoria Cross. And not to say by any means what Bleak did was easy.
Mattk
04-01-2006, 09:05 PM
Well, statistically, the VC not awarded as frequently. I don't think the VC has been award for a while, whilst there have been a few Medals of Honor for recent Iraq veterans.
Toronto
04-02-2006, 03:48 AM
Yeah, that was a lot of shit happening to him (sickness wise). RIP.

It seems like the Medal of Honor is a bit easier (if that is the right word) to award than the Victoria Cross. And not to say by any means what Bleak did was easy.

Victoria Cross = 1,355
Medal of Honor = 3,460
ae86_16v
04-06-2006, 01:57 AM
Yeah, that was a lot of shit happening to him (sickness wise). RIP.

It seems like the Medal of Honor is a bit easier (if that is the right word) to award than the Victoria Cross. And not to say by any means what Bleak did was easy.

Victoria Cross = 1,355
Medal of Honor = 3,460

Not easy by any means. I think the VCs been around long though right?
Mattk
04-06-2006, 10:10 PM
The VC was first awarded after the Crimean War (1854-55). The last award was to an British Army private a year ago, and the last award before that was to two soliders in the Falklands War (1982). The Medal of Honor was first awarded during the Civil War (so around 10 years younger), and last awarded in 2005 to a Jewish corporal who was denied the Medal during the Korean War because his sergeant was anti-Semitic. One has been awarded to an Iraq serviceman KIA in 2003.

More Medals of Honor have been awarded cheifly because they were awarded liberally in the Civil War, and for a time after that, in peacetime.