Longer Wars, Fewer Medals of Honor

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In fact, when you compare the length of the current wars and the number of Medals of Honor awarded in connection with the Vietnam War, about 270 more Iraq and Afghanistan veterans should have received it by now. The disparity only increases when you compare the current wars with all of our nation’s previous wars, except the Persian Gulf war of 1991. The highest number of Medals of Honor was awarded during the Civil War, with an average of nearly 32 for every month of the war, sometimes while the soldiers were still on the battlefield. And yet here we are, a military and civilian population exhausted and demoralized after almost 10 years of constant fighting, with only nine Medal of Honor recipients in our ranks, and only two of them alive to actually wear it.

Even the relatively smaller size of today’s fighting force doesn’t explain the discrepancy. Though there were far more troops involved in the previous wars, a study in 2009 by the Army Times newspaper found that during World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam, the number of Medal of Honor recipients ranged from 23 to 29 per million troops. For the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, there has been just one award per million troops.

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