In contrast to PFC Jessica Lynch...Miss Martha Jane Canary (Cannary)

[MillRatUSMC]

Martha Jane Canary also spelled Cannary (1848-1903)
Have also found this;
Marthy Jane Canary (Cannary)

1872-1873
When on returning to the Post we were ambushed about a mile and a half from our destination. When fired upon Capt Egan was shot. I was riding in advance and on hearing the firing turned in my saddle and saw the Captain reeling in his saddle as though about to fall. I turned my horse and galloped back with all haste to his side and got there in time to catch him as he was falling. I lifted him onto my horse in front of me and succeeded in getting him safely to the Fort.

In the midst of the fighting, it is said, the woman rode into the very center of the trouble, dismounted, lifted the captain in front of her on her saddle, and dashed out. They got through untouched, but every other man in the gallant company was slaughtered.

Sould Miss Martha Jane Canary (Cannary) have been award a Medal of Honor for this action?
But there has to be two witnesses to submit a name, but what if all were slaughtered as in this action?
Times were different than now.

1876
Martha Jane Canary (Cannary)
Marthy Jane Canary (Cannary)
By a daring feat, saved the lives of six passengers on a stage coach traveling from Deadwood to Wild Birch, in the Black hills country.
"The stage was surrounded by Indians, and the driver, was wounded by an arrow. Although the other six passengers were men, not one of them had nerve enough to take the ribbons. Seeing the situation, Martha Jane Canary mounted the driver's seat without a moment's hesitation and brought the stage safely and in good time to Wild Birch.

We come to know Miss Martha Jane Canary aka Marthy Jane Cannary as
"Calamity Jane".
She's buried next to her good friend (lover)

"Will Bill Hickock at Deadwood, South Dakota as Matha Jane Canary Burke.

I wonder what the "Army of One" would have awarded Miss Martha (Marthy) Jane Canary (Cannary) if she was alive now?

Semper Fidelis
Ricardo

[thedrifter]

Now that is One Woman who deserves a Medal........



Sempers,

Roger

[cbqrr47]

She was not Wild Bill's lover. While she had a crush on him, most historians say he detested her. She was very dirty, while by most accounts, he was a "clean freak" (for the times).

[MillRatUSMC]

History is how we see it...some historians have them having a child that was put up for adoption.
In the "Movies in Time" on the History Channel, was another view on the supposed relationship of a dirty woman and a clean freak for his times.
On her story by herself, Martha Jane Canary states that she worn the garmens of her sex till she joined the Army and was placed under the command of "Buffalo Bill".
She grew up among men, many of their habits must have worn off on her.
She rode horses and chewed tobacco and on those long rides she must have endured a great deal of discomfort.
No special privy for her sex.
I just look on her bravery under fire.
I myself think that she rated a Medal of Honor for saving Captain Egan.
So history is how we see things.
That why I placed lover between the two ( and ) marks.
Many are not in agreement on the relationship that existed or did not exist between "Wild Bill" and "Calamity Jane".
But she did capture his killer, but he escaped.
Soon there after he was recaptured, tried and covicted and hung by the neck.
Before her death, she requested that she be buried next to "Wild Bill"...wonder why?

Semper Fidelis
Ricardo

[zippoman]

I hate puttin anythng on this board that was written by a Doggie, but this was Hackworths Column from this past Sunday !!

By David H. Hackworth



Pfc. Jessica Lynch recently was awarded a Bronze Star Medal, a Purple Heart and the POW Medal. The BSM citation reads: “For exemplary courage under fire during combat operations to liberate Iraq, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Private First Class Lynch's bravery and heart persevered while surviving in the ambush and captivity in An Nasiriya.”



A BSM for “bravery” and “surviving in the ambush and captivity”!



The Army's official After-Action Report said she was in a vehicle that crashed while hauling butt trying to escape an enemy ambush. She was knocked unconscious and woke up at a nearby Iraqi hospital receiving special attention from some super-caring Iraqi doctors and nurses.



This was probably the first incident in U.S. military history in which an American soldier was awarded our country’s fourth-highest ground-fighting award for being conked out and off the air throughout a fight.



BSMs citing bravery typically read: “Moving his machine gun to a forward vantage point, he covered the advance of the infantry with a heavy volume of effective fire. Repeatedly exposing himself to a devastating small-arms automatic weapons and mortar barrage …. ” Or: “(He) voluntarily acted as point man and ... when the platoon was fired upon ... charged the (enemy) position .... Through his courage, determination and devotion to duty, he saved his patrol from suffering casualties and captured a prisoner who later provided important information.”



It’s no big surprise that I’ve been bombarded by thousands of angry e-mails from vets protesting this assault on our country’s sacred award system.



“She wasn’t wounded in action, nor did she do anything to deserve a Bronze Star,” writes Arch McNeill. “We have hundreds of valiant soldiers here in the 3rd Division who far more deserve more than she received but in many cases didn’t receive anything.”



“I'm going to send all my awards back to the president and tell him where he can shove them,” says a genuine war hero, Jack Speed, a former Army Raider.



Trust me, the troops – past and present – are unhappy.



So I rang the Pentagon and asked Col. Jeff Keane, “Why the bravery bit?” Finally, when the standard Army propaganda drill wasn’t going down, Keane told me, “It was for her bravery in the hospital.”



But all this flimflam wasn’t Jessica Lynch’s doing. She was used right from the first – a frail prop in the Pentagon’s public-relations campaign to sell the war to the American people and to encourage their daughters to join up and be heroes.



To keep the truth under wraps, the Army concocted another whopper: “She suffers from amnesia.”



A senior officer from V Corps (the unit that eventually awarded her the BSM), who has asked to remain anonymous, comments that there was “tremendous pressure right from the get-go to award Pvt. Lynch a Silver Star. But the high brass here concluded, ‘There was no evidence of heroism on her part,’ and told the pushers to back off.”



But when the propagandists conned the highly respected Washington Post into reporting on how Lynch was shot and stabbed but continued to kill Iraqis until her last round was spent, heroic stuff that would make Audie Murphy look like a slacker – which the Post then took several months to correct – other media were fast to pick up the fairy tale, and the Army was besieged by proud Americans demanding that Jessica be awarded the Medal of Honor.



Of course, many of us now know that a high-priced flack in Tommy Frank’s headquarters came up with this tall tale and then duped the Post.



According to retired Marine Lt. Col. Roger Charles: “There’s nothing they won’t stoop to spin. The Army needed a female hero to boost female recruiting and PR efforts, so they went and invented one.”



And that’s the root of the problem. The elevation of Jessica to Joan of Arc status is to recruit more women, even though thousands of female soldiers couldn’t deploy with their units to Iraq because of pregnancy, no sitters for single moms’ multiple kids and other problems.



And poor Jessica Lynch has become the unwitting poster girl for an Army of One that’s fast becoming an Army of Two – since apparently more than half of the women deployed to Iraq are now pregnant.

[firstsgtmike]

Quote.

"So I rang the Pentagon and asked Col. Jeff Keane, “Why the bravery bit?” Finally, when the standard Army propaganda drill wasn’t going down, Keane told me, “It was for her bravery in the hospital.”

Unquote.

Based on the above, may I suggest the issuance of a new award for valor, to take its place one step below the Bronze Star.

I would suggest it be called the Lynch Pin and be awarded to any recruit or serviceman (or servicewoman) who bravely faced the innoculation needle without flinching.

To demonstrate it's importance, I would also require it to be personally awarded by the recipient's Secretary of the Army, Navy, or air farce. Naturally, a full dress parade to render the appropriate honors to the award winner will be manditory.

Also, the reading of the Citation as a morale booster to the assembled troops will be required.

Heroism should NOT go unrewarded.

[Barrio_rat]

Doesn't the Air Force already do something similar to this? Don't they issue a ribbon for throwing a grenade? As well as a ribbon for just about everything and anything else one might be expected to do in the Marines?

[zippoman]

Originally posted by Barrio_rat
Doesn't the Air Force already do something similar to this? Don't they issue a ribbon for throwing a grenade? As well as a ribbon for just about everything and anything else one might be expected to do in the Marines?

Not sure about the name of the ribbon, but they have a new one now that they issue to the Graduating Cadet at the Air Farce Academy who can pop the most cherry's !!!!

[CPLRapoza]

My cousin is in the Air force Reserves. She signed up almost a year and a half after I did, and picked up E-4 right after I did, which was after 2 yrs of service. and is aboput to become an E-5. Can someone explain this to me. And I wonder why they complain when we make fun of those pussies. Pardon my french.