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This is so depressing:

Blackfive – Should There Be A Shughart High School?

SERGEANT FIRST CLASS RANDALL D. SHUGHART, UNITED STATES ARMY, U. S. Army Special Operations Command, distinguished himself on 3 October 1993, while serving as a Sniper Team Member attached to TASK FORCE RANGER in Mogadishu, Somalia. Sergeant Shughart provided precision sniper fires from the lead helicopter during an assault on a building and at two helicopter crash sites, while subjected to intense automatic weapons and rocket propelled grenade fires. … Sergeant Shughart continued his protective fire until he depleted his ammunition and was fatally wounded. His actions saved the pilot’s life.

Above is the citation for the Medal of Honor posthumously awarded to Sergeant First Class Shughart. 

Robert Ford is upset with Big Spring High School.  The School Board refuses to rename the school in honor of Randall Shughart.  Even the students have signed a petition against it.

Did Sgt. First Class Randall Shughart sacrifice his life so the students at his former high school could have a new all-weather surface on the high school track? Apparently Big Spring Student Council thinks so. This was the most appalling remark made at the recent school board meeting that once again rejected efforts to name the new high school building in Shughart’s honor.

Shughart gave his own life to save that of a fellow soldier on Oct. 3, 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia. Along with Master Sgt. Gary Gordon, Shughart was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for his actions above and beyond the call of duty.

His story was featured in the book and movie by the same title, Black Hawk Down. It is a story that has a long and spiritual history: “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15:13).

Shughart was a 1976 graduate of Big Spring High School in Newville. The Navy has named a ship and a class of ships in honor of Shughart, the Army War College in Carlisle has named a residence hall in his honor, and the mayor of Harrisburg has named a street in his honor.

Shughart is further honored in North Carolina at the Airborne & Special Operations Museum, in Louisiana in a military training town of 27 multistory buildings, in Colorado with a hall at Fort Carson, and in the best free enterprise tradition of America, by SOKO Toys, which has produced a G.I. Joe-like doll of Shughart.

There is one place however, where nothing is named in honor of Randall Shughart. That is his hometown of Newville, where he was raised, and in particular, Big Spring High School, his alma mater.

Great, you say. Just great. Spirit of gratitude and charity alive and well in Newville, you say. If you keep reading the article, it gets worse:

However, the superintendent of schools and the school board members have resisted every attempt. In 2001, they stated they “could not support naming the new school building for one veteran when many graduates had served in the military.”

Ah, tolerant liberals making decisions for the boys in the military before their own children had been sent in. Who does that remind you of? But seriously, does he seriously think that the other graduates would actually be insulted that the school would be named after the bravest and most famous among them?

Since the Civil War ended in 1865, only three other men from central Pennsylvania have been awarded the Medal of Honor — one from World War II, one from Korea, and one from Vietnam.

See? I mean, I’m really happy about those other graduates’ service, but they didn’t get the Medal of Honor, they didn’t get movies made about them, they don’t have a ship named after them. And now they’re being used as scapegoats for these ungrateful, childish, spoiled little sods.