My first post on this blog was going to be about the National Debt, the IRS ignoring tax fraud, or something else equally serious and offensive.

I've found something far more offensive than anything else I can think of.

This nation had it's first surviving Medal of Honor recipient since Vietnam. The 9 previous recipients received it posthumously.

While watching the video of the award ceremony, I couldn't help but wonder where this mans family was. They weren't in the front row where they should have been. Congressmen were in the front row. Where were the families of the 2 men who were with Ssgt Giunta who died? They were in the 3rd row.

At the end of the award ceremony President Obama was shaking hands with the Congressmen and chatting it up with them. Instead of spending time with the Medal of Honor recipient, his family, and the families of the deceased soldiers, our President was hobnobbing with other politicians. This day wasn't in honor of politicians who did nothing on a battlefield to deserve our countries highest honor for Valor. It was a day to honor a soldier who's selfless acts reflect honor upon himself, his fellow soldiers, his unit, the US Army and this nation.

Ssgt Giunta's family should have been in the front row. The families of the two soldiers who died should have been in the front row. His surviving fellow soldiers in the second row if they can't all fit in the first row.

Politicians should have been behind all of these folks. Why were they in the front? Politicians have 365 days a year to grandstand in Washington D.C. Why do they need to take the place of honor on this day, this hour, from folks who have done far more to earn it than they ever will?

President Bush was far from perfect but he would have gotten this one right. Maybe President Obama should have called him and asked for advice on this one.