"Awards for what?"
..."the overwhelming majority of award winners are always senior officers, Lt Colonels and above"...
..."So, the distribution of these awards on the basis of battlefield performance is simply out of question."
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One can see the same thing here in the US, with the exception being those awards that demand the highest standard of battle field conduct:
Son accepts dad's Medal of Honor
WASHINGTON -- Paul Ray Smith's 11-year-old son, standing only chest-high to President Bush, accepted the nation's highest award for valor Monday for his late father, who exposed himself to enemy fire in Iraq and saved at least 100 of his fellow U.S. soldiers.
Outnumbered and exposed, Army Sgt. 1st Class Smith stayed at his gun, holding back an advancing Iraqi force until a bullet in his head claimed his life. Bush presented the Medal of Honor on the second anniversary of the day Smith died in battle in 2003, near Baghdad International Airport.
borderlandnews.com
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It seems to me that those Kashmiris from both sides of the border who had the courage to ride the bus on that first day deserve awards, also...
The silver lining of the post 9/11 terrorism cloud is that every act of cowardice performed by a terrorist is being eventually answered by 1000 acts of courage by ordinary citizens, as illustrated by the bus riders above and by those brave Iraqis who were the first to appear at the polls on election morning. |
