You know, I'm not going to trust any numbers from the primitives, even if backed up by a link.
Remember, primitives lie. All the time, primitives lie.
Any military experts in here know the answer to the question?
How many Medals of Honor have been awarded posthumously?
It's my impression as a professional civilian that while it's nice one has survived to get a Medal of Honor, it's more so to acknowledge those doing Great Deeds of Valor.....and the fatality rate of those doing Great Deeds of Valor tends to be, uh, rather high.
One needs to point out that in the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants, those doing Great Deeds of Valor, and dying doing it, well, their corpses were left to rot in fields or destroyed buildings, and unless they happened to be a member of the Communist Party, their relatives weren't even notified.
Edited to add: And I'm not talking about the second world war, either.
I heard many stories about the war in Afghanistan, 1979-1989, in which was the case.
I knew people in the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants who as late as the early and mid-1990s were still waiting to learn what happened to their fathers, sons, brothers, cousins, down there in the mountains.
