Congressional Medals of Honor Opposed to War

General David Monroe Shoup
(Dec. 30, 1904 – January 13, 1983)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_M._Shoup

General
United States Marine Corps

• World War II Medal of Honor
• Distinguished Service Medal
• Legion of Merit (2)
• Purple Heart (2)

"I believe if we had, and would, keep our dirty, bloody, dollar-crooked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own. That they design and want. That they fight and work for... and not the American style, which they don't want. Not one crammed down their throats by the Americans."

-USMC General David Monroe Shoup 1904 – 1983
(This statement ties back to an assessment made by Shoup that "in every case... every senior officer that I knew... said we should never send ground forces into Southeast Asia.") & supporter of VVAW

"To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded."

David M. Shoup

Major General Smedley Darlington Butler
(July 30, 1881 – June 21, 1940)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler

Major General
United States Marine Corps

• Congressional Medal of Honor (2)
  
• Marine Corps Brevet Medal
• Army Distinguished Service Medal
• Navy Distinguished Service Medal
• French Order of the Black Star

"WAR is a racket. It always has been."

"My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military."

"There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights."

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

Smedley Butler

General William Tecumseh Sherman
(Feb. 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Sherman

• Thanks of Congress

• Army of the Tennessee (1863–64)
• Military Division of the Mississippi (1864–65)
• Commanding General of the United States Army (March 8, 1869 - November 1, 1883)

"I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell."

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

William Tecumseh Sherman