WTF is a "Medal of Valor?"

Over seven years of war, and the Boston Globe doesn't know shit from shinola when it comes to covering the military.

Following a meeting with Gen. Ray Odierno cq, the top US commander in Iraq, and talks with Iraqi leaders, Obama arrived at a former palace of Saddam Hussein to decorate 10 troops with the Medal of Valor.

In the Globe's defense, on the other hand, this looks like a blog post that didn't make it through the copy desk/fact-checking system. If the newspaper has one.

Layers, and all that, wot?

Splash, out

Jason