1389 Blog: Capt. Lance Peter Sijan, USAF

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Capt. Lance Peter Sijan, USAF

Here is the story of the heroic service of Capt. Lance Peter Sijan, as recounted by the United States Air Force. He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously for his heroism during the Vietnam War, where he died as a prisoner of the North Vietnamese. He displayed this strength of character not just at one particular time of great danger, but consistently throughout a long ordeal.

The USAF website noted the Irish heritage of Capt. Sijan's mother, but not the Serbian heritage of his father. Capt. Sijan's Wikipedia biography does mention this.

Capt. Sijan was not the only Serbian-American awarded the Medal of Honor. Reportedly, a greater proportion of Serbian-Americans per capita have been awarded the Medal of Honor than any other ethnic group serving in the U.S. military.

Sadly, credit is not being given where credit is due. Not long ago, the U.S. was at war with Serbia, for reasons that did not prove justifiable in retrospect - which is why the mainstream media has so little to say about the Balkans at present. Even now, the U.S. State Department is still trying to detach Kosovo from Serbia to turn it over to jihadist rule, and to sell out the Bosnian Serbs as well, in defiance of all common sense. Encouraging the public to admire a Serbian-American hero would no doubt raise too many embarrassing questions about past and present foreign policy mistakes, and about those bureaucrats, journalists, and elected officials who are clearly to blame.