Heston awarded Medal of Freedom and he deserves it!
I was browsing the NRA website and notice a reference to Charlton Heston being awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Bush. I did a search and found this article on, of all places, CNN.com. Funny how this got little or no mainstream news coverage even though this is the highest civilian award granted by our government. I' d bet if Slick Willie had won it the the press would be tripping over each other to write the front page story. Reading the list of recipients, I think that of all the people on the list, Heston is probably rates this medal the most.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush has selected 11 leaders in arts, sports, politics, science and business for the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the White House announced Friday.
Three of the recipients are receiving the nation' s highest civilian honor posthumously. The others are invited to claim their medal at a White House ceremony with the president on July 23.
The Medal of Freedom, established by President Truman in 1945 to recognize civilians for their service during World War II, was reinstated by President Kennedy in 1963 to honor distinguished service.
Bush will award the medal to:
"¢ Jacques Barzun, a former Columbia University professor and dean and author and scholar of modern European thought and culture. His books include " Race, A Study in Modern Superstition" and the more recent " From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life: 1500 to the Present."
"¢ Julia Child, a master chef, an author of numerous cookbooks and a host of a number of television series.
"¢ Roberto Clemente, a Hall of Fame baseball star from Puerto Rico who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Clemente, who had a lifetime batting average of .317, 240 home runs and 1,305 RBIs, died in 1972, delivering emergency relief to earthquake victims in Nicaragua.
"¢ Van Cliburn, who at the age of 23 won the first Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition held in 1958 in Moscow. He has performed around the world.
"¢ Vaclav Havel, former president of the new Czech Republic who led the nation until earlier this year. He had been imprisoned several times in the former Czechoslovakia for his plays about Communist rule.
"¢ Charlton Heston, an Academy Award winning actor and political activist. His films include " The Greatest Show on Earth," " El Cid," " The Greatest Story Ever Told," " Ben Hur," " The Ten Commandments" and " Planet of the Apes."
"¢ Edward Teller, a physicist who emigrated to America from his native Hungary to escape the rise of Nazi Germany. He worked on national defense projects such as the Manhattan Project and the Strategic Defense Initiative.
"¢ Dave Thomas, who created the Wendy' s restaurant chain. His restaurants, named after one of his daughters, became known for their square hamburger patties. The philanthropist who died last year was adopted as a child and was a lifelong advocate for adoption.
"¢ Byron Raymond White, who served 31 years as a Supreme Court justice, was an All-American athlete and Rhodes Scholar who earned a Bronze Star in World War II. He played in the NFL and led the league in rushing before working in civil rights as a deputy attorney general and earning a spot on the high court. He retired in 1993 and died last year.
"¢ James Q. Wilson, who has written on the nature of human morality, government, and criminal justice. A professor at both Harvard and UCLA, his books include " Varieties of Police Behavior: The Management of Law and Order in Eight Communities," " The Moral Sense" and " The Marriage Problem: How Our Culture Has Weakened Families."
"¢ John R. Wooden, a record-setting college basketball coach and teacher whose UCLA Bruins won 10 national championships in 12 years.
RE: Heston awarded Medal of Freedom and he deserves it!
Heston is truly a great man and a great American, Slick would' nt make a pimple on Heston' s butt, hes not even in the same class, Heston is a man and thats more than I can say about slick.
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Heston awarded Medal of Freedom and he deserves it!
