A decorated Ohio Active Duty Marine who has been serving in Iraq is returning one of his medals out of protest. A modern day version of throwing your medal over the fence:
A local Marine who service in Iraq earned several medals for serving his country, but he's giving back one of the medals to the White House as a form of protest.
Sgt. Matthew Bee is a decorated Akron Marine who spent seven months in Hadeetha, serving with the 3rd Battalion 25th Marines Weapons Company based in Brook Park.
Bee received six medals of commendation, but one of them he will give back to President George W. Bush, calling the medal political, NewsChannel5 reported.
The medal is the War on Terrorism service medal, and Bee calls it "eye candy" from Bush.
"So, he took something noble and honorable and made it kind of dirty. And I always thought that medal was the one he pinned on us and said, 'This is my war. This is my stamp in history,'" said Bee.
Bee said he is not anti-war, but rather pro-peace. He plans to travel to Washington, D.C., with a small group of Marines who feel the same way he does. They will all try to return their War on Terrorism medal to Bush personally or to members of Congress.
Here we have yet another member of the military speaking against Bush while Bush still pretends he is a firend of the armed forces.
I think this is a great action by those marines. The "War on Terrorism" medal is just a shiney piece of glitz that serves no purpose except to say you were fighting during the reign of Dictator George W. Bush, in his made-up war.
SGT. Bee disgraces the fellow members of his unit such as myself with this action. With the Israel-Lebanon conflict, it is even more apparent that the War on Terror isn't something Bush made up. He shames us.
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