Questions About a USMC Medal of Honor

I am sorry to see that the Marines
are alleged to have inflated
the record in order to get Dakota Meyer a Medal of Honor. This guy simply
does not deserve all he is going through. Anyway, here is the
USMC response.

My initial thought is people would be
shocked at how political the MoH is. Yesterday I was looking at an Army study
of the awarding of the medal in World War II. There is a section on how
MacArthur, jealous of subordinates, sat on a bunch of nominations until, near
the end of the war, George Marshall flatly ordered him to send the paperwork to
Washington. At the same time, Marshall gave MacArthur himself a MoH for leaving
the Philippines, in part to shield him from allied skepticism and allegations
of cowardice for leaving his troops.