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COMMENTS: Honor Once Attracted Protests
Observances for Medal of Honor Day at Arlington Cemetery inspired the closing feature on CBS and NBC. NBC anchor Brian Williams focused on John Finn, who will celebrate his hundredth birthday this July. Finn won his medal defending Pearl Harbor on that Date Which Will Live in Infamy. It was awarded in Hawaii, so when Finn attended the ceremonies along with 37 other medalists, it was his first visit to the White House. CBS' David Martin--in his second appearance in a single newscast--showed us White House pictures of Robert Howard's awards ceremony with Richard Nixon for his exploits during the Vietnam War. That event attracted protests: "He was a war at a time when Americans did not believe in either the war or its heroes."
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