For the benefit of "Turd":
I'll leave out the small stuff, here's the things I've actually earned medals for serving this great country back in WWII.
1. Boot camp graduation - I woke up every morning at 0200 to shine my buttons, polish my boots, clean my gun, and swab the latrine. Then I got rode all day by my sergeant. At night the other guys elected my to clean their equipment, too, so I didn't usually get to sleep before 0300.
2. Pearl Harbor - I was there as part of a Marine detachment watching the ships. The fellas took a vote and I was real honored when they picked me to row into the harbor to draw enemy fire. Those guy were the greatest. I felt for them when the barracks was bombed by mistake while I was in the harbor.
3. Guadalcanal - We was pinned down by a Japanese machine gun nest and some of the guys suggested I should bring some sandwiches to the enemy because they was probably hungry. I guess I startled them because they surrendered when I got to them. After a few days of C-rations, I felt like surrendering too.
4. Sicily, 1943 - Beautiful people, them Italianos. My sarge dared me to go ring the doorbell of a man by the name of Dan Corleone and then run away. Well, he caught me, but then he laughs and kisses me on both cheeks! Next thing you know, I get this medal. I guess he had some friends back in the states in government or something.
5. Anzio 1944 - My Purple Heart for getting shot in the head. The doctor told me the bullet had buried itself about 4 or 5 inches from my brain. Too close for comfort, if you ask me. The thing was, he said that the bullet was American. I guess the Krauts had got ahold of some of our ammo somehow, the bastards. Good thing I wasn't hurt too bad.
6. D-day, 1944 - Couple of Frenchmen gave me directions to a real good French toast place, but I musta got mixed up because I got caught smack dab in the middle of a Panzer division. I ran and they chased me right into a ditch and busted up their tanks. I'd like to go back and find that French toast place sometime.
7. Battle of the Bulge - The Germans was firing their new rockets at us for days. My C.O. told me the rockets were really Martians coming to help the Americans win the war and would I got out and open up an unexploded rocket and say hi. Well, I did, and I accidentally defused the thing, which was good because I saved a bunch of nuns that were walking past.
8. Berlin 1945 - The fellas all told me they were going to a bar and I should meet them at some place called "The Bunker". Well, you know me and directions. I got to a bunker but it was owned by Hitler, but I didn't know that until I tried to order a beer. He had a headache and he needed to go take some pills and lie down. Next thing you know, the place is on fire. I thought for sure I'd get blamed, but I got this medal instead.
Whew, that's a lot of typing for these old fingers, but there you go, turd-boy.