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COMMENTS: Modest Medal Museum
NBC's Brian Williams jetted to Charleston SC to anchor from the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown. Williams marked the Memorial Day opening of the ship's conversion into a war museum celebrating recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor. Williams called himself "happy to serve on the foundation" that created the showcase. He illustrated their heroism with Hollywood clips: the Vietnam war movie We Were Soldiers and, quirkily, President Lyndon Johnson's doctored medal ceremony from Forrest Gump. There are 110 medalists alive, Williams noted, including MSNBC's own in-house military analyst Jack Jacobs: "We do not wear the medal for ourselves. We wear it for all those who cannot wear it." Williams called Jacobs' modesty "unbreakable."
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