Should we stop giving bravery medals to soldiers?

[DBSV8]

definitely not

excellent article on VC winner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Upham

[Mario149]

DBSV8 said:

definitely not

excellent article on VC winner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Upham

But do you think he wanted the medals or did it for the medals? Do you think a man of that stature gave a fig what others apart from his forces colleagues thought of him?

I guess for me it boils down to: was he (and others) given a medal to make him feel better (and did it actually do that?) or make us feel better? I suspect nowadays it's strongly the latter.

As I said when I first started the thread, I'm not saying we shouldn't recognize and honour these people, I'm just not sure that we're doing it in a way that they want, but rather in a way which we want.

[FredClogs]

It's a fact that most people don't join the army to kill people and data from WW1 and WW2 showed that most of the time most soldiers aimed to miss. I don't know who said it but someone once said Armies are 99% logistics and 1% extreme violence and the men who are prepared to or are caused by situation to revert to extreme violence should be recognised with a medal (and then taken away and shot).