Why no medals for Flight 93/WTC heroes

[njslim]

Following article from TIMES Of LONDON about awarding QUEENS GALLANTRY
MEDAL to people who captured failed 7/21 bombers and the Glascow airport
terrorists

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3485547.ece

Wondering why no such awards given to Flight 93 passengers, Port Authority
people like Frank De Martini/Pablo Ortiz who rescued 50 people by breaking
down jammed doors in WTC 1. Early on was push to award some kind of
decoration to them. What is opinion?

[beachnut]

http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_SN_369.html

What about this?

110th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 369
To provide for a medal of appropriate design to be awarded by the President to the next of kin or other representative of those individuals killed as a result of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
January 23, 2007

[LordoftheLeftHand]

Not to nitpick but shouldn't this be a politics topic instead of CT? Unless it somehow related (other than just being about the events of 9/11/01)?

[Undesired Walrus]

Sorry, people who captured the 21/7 guys? Are you referring to the police?

As all four of them escaped from their target areas.

[Architect]

Following article from TIMES Of LONDON about awarding QUEENS GALLANTRY
MEDAL to people who captured failed 7/21 bombers and the Glascow airport
terrorists


I'm going to be pernickety here and point out that there is no such paper as "The Times of London", it's simply "The Times". If you want to differentiate it from the NY Times then call it "Britain's "The Times"" or somesuch........

[Dr Adequate]

432 people got the Medal of Valor (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/911medalofvalor/). Oh, and Rick Rescorla got the Presidential Medal of Freedom. (http://www.medaloffreedom.com/RickRescorla1.htm)

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Ortiz and DeMartini didn't get the Medal of Valor 'cos it's for civilians whose job is to protect the public, firemen, policemen, ambulance drivers, etc. But ... the fact that it wasn't their job makes them, kind of ... braver ... doesn't it? If they'd been Port Authority policemen, they'd have got medals, but apparently there's nothing for a brave architect.

Strange.