John W. Finn will be 100 years old in 2009. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Finn manned a machine gun and returned fire despite being hit in 21 places. For his actions on that day he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor by Adm. Chester Nimitz. Finn is the only Medal of Honor recipient from that day who is still living.
In 2002 after his Medal of Honor set off alarms at an airport security checkpoint, this American hero was detained, accused of fraud, disrespected, and not offered any assistance despite his age and the difficulty he had in trying to comply with the requests of United Airlines employees. Every one of those people who treated this man like shit that day should have been fired.
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