UNALLOYED HEROISM: The Medals of George ‘Bud’ Day (1925-2013). At the top is the Command Pilot Badge of the Air Force. The ribbon at the top left is the Medal of Honor, next to the Air Force Cross. The second row contains, from the left, the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal, the Silver Star, the Legion of Merit, and the Distinguished Flying Cross. The third row starts with the Bronze Star with a V device for Valor, then the Purple Hearts, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, and the Air Medal with silver and bronze oak leaf clusters. Below that row are the Presidential Unit Citation, the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with V for Valor, then the ribbon with the red-white-and-blue on either end and the black in the middle that is the Prisoner of War Medal, followed by the Combat Readiness Medal. The fifth row contains the Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal, the Army Good Conduct Medal, the American Campaign Medal, and the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal. The sixth row contains the Victory Medal of World War II, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Service Medal, and the Vietnam Service Medal. The seventh row contains the Air Force Longevity Service Award, the Armed Forces Reserve Medal, the Small Arms Expert Marksmanship Ribbon, and the Commander Badge of the National Order of Vietnam. The last row contains the Vietnam Gallantry Cross, the Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Award, the United Nations Service Medal for Korea, and the Vietnam Campaign Medal.
By LOUIS GORDON, Special to the Sun
August 18, 2016
For anyone seeking to understand the continuing prominence of the Likud Party in Israeli politics the story of its progenitor, Vladimir Jabotinsky, is essential. A talented writer raised in an assimilated Odessa family, Jabotinsky threw himself into…
By XICO GREENWALD, Special to the Sun
May 16, 2016
In Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture, the largest special exhibition ever mounted at the Frick Collection, towering portraits look very much at home on the museum’s velvet-covered walls. Van Dyck’s elegantly colored canvases in elaborately carved…
“April Flowers,” a group exhibition organized by New York Sun Arts contributor Xico Greenwald, opens today at the Queens College Art Center. The exhibit presents floral-themed artworks by 22 artists. “From the vegetal patterns of Islamic tile design…
When the senior senator from New York, Charles Schumer, and the president of Americans for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist, are on the same side of an issue in Washington, it’s worth taking a moment to figure out what is going on. Mr. Schumer, a…
By LAWRENCE KUDLOW, Special to the Sun
August 13, 2016
Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, when in fact the results never change, is one definition of insanity. That definition works for economic insanity, too. Over the past seven-and-a-half years, President Obama has…
By SETH LIPSKY, From the New York Post
August 10, 2016
What are liberals going to say for themselves if Donald Trump gets assassinated? That’s a question worth pondering as a new effort is under way to delegitimize The Donald in the wake of his remarks on the Second Amendment. Leftists are accusing Mr…
If a political party can deliver peace and prosperity, it usually means it can win re-election. That idea is simple enough. Applying it to the upcoming election, though, is not so easy. Giving it a try may help illuminate some of the issues involved…
By CLAUDIA ROSETT, Special to the Sun
August 22, 2016
Congressional investigators trying to uncover the trail of $1.3 billion in payments to Iran might want to focus on 13 large, identical sums that Treasury paid to the State Department under the generic heading of settling “Foreign Claims.” The 13…
By RICK RICHMAN, Special to the Sun
August 19, 2016
The State Department spokesman finally admitted yesterday that the January 17 payment of $400 million to Iran and the release of the American prisoners were connected. He rejected the word “ransom,” asserting that the money had simply been “leverage,”…
It’s far from the monetary reform for which we’ve been plumping. But the Federal Reserve has just launched an official page on Mark Zuckerberg’s Web site, and at first glance it looks like the Fed is entering new territory. The lead item, as of our…
It is going to be illuminating to see how Hillary Clinton’s campaign deals with the confirmation by the Wall Street Journal that President Obama’s payment to the Iranians of $400 million in cash was used to ransom American hostages. It’s not just evidence, were any needed, that one act of appeasement always leads to another. Among the devils in the details is the disclosure of the fact that that the aircraft via which the cash was delivered was linked to an airline used by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The idea that Hillary Clinton would serve as a champion of religious freedom is being met with skepticism in the pages of the National Review. It picks up on an op-ed piece the Democratic nominee herself wrote for the Deseret News, asserting that she’s been “fighting to defend religious freedom for years.” She boasts of her work overseas, but the author of the National Review piece, Alexandra DeSanctis, reckons that because Mrs. Clinton has “made no effort to defend religious freedom here in the U.S.” her claim “rings hollow.”
The best column yet on Donald Trump is by the economist Judy Shelton in tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal. The heroine of honest money acknowledges the stigma that attaches among conservatives today to “any kind of global economic initiative.” Yet by insisting that America label China a currency manipulator, she argues, Mr. Trump may be “laying the groundwork for a significant breakthrough in international monetary relations” — one that could eventually “restore free trade as a vital component of economic growth.”
It seems to be the view of the Obama administration that if Israel wants America to help the Jewish state maintain its qualitative military edge, Jerusalem had best shut up in respect of Munich. That has emerged in the uproar over President Obama’s…
Until next week when the Republican convention will be over, I will maintain my self-imposed gag on substantive comments about the presidential race. But I would like to make an interim comment on the press. Peggy Noonan is correct, as usual, that the…
Either the British have twisted themselves politically into confusion worthy of resolution by Alexander the Great’s slicing of the Gordian Knot, or they are about to demonstrate more than ever before their talent at muddling through. As most readers…
It must be the balmy summer weather that makes me wonder if most people except me are losing their minds, and if our leaders, the beneficiaries and personification of the great democratic systems for which previous generations proverbially fought and…
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