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President Barack Obama presents the Medal of Honor posthumously to the sons of Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Richard L. Etchberger, right to left, Richard Etchberger Corey Etchberger, and Steve Wilson, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. Etchberger received the honor for his heroic actions in combat in Laos on March 11, 1968, after deliberately exposing himself to enemy fire in order to put his wounded comrades in rescue slings permitting them to be airlifted to safety. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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President Barack Obama presents the Medal of Honor posthumously to the sons of Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Richard L. Etchberger, from right, Richard Etchberger, Corey Etchberger, and step son Steve Wilson , Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Etchberger received the honor for his heroic actions in combat in Laos on March 11, 1968, after deliberately exposing himself to enemy fire in order to put his wounded comrades in rescue slings permitting them to be airlifted to safety. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Steve Wilson, left, and Corey Etchberger, right, react as President Barack Obama presents the Medal of Honor posthumously to their father Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Richard L. Etchberger, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Etchberger received the honor for his heroic actions in combat in Laos on March 11, 1968, after deliberately exposing himself to enemy fire in order to put his wounded comrades in rescue slings permitting them to be airlifted to safety. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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U.S. President Barack Obama stands with sons Steven Wilson and Cory and Richard Etchberger after Obama awarded Chief Master Sergeant Richard L. Etchberger, U.S. Air Force, the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry in the East Room of the White House in Washington on September 21, 2010. Etchberger was killed in Laos in 1968 helping to save wounded men. UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg
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Son Richard Etchberger holds the Medal of Honor awarded to Chief Master Sergeant Richard L. Etchberger, U.S. Air Force, for conspicuous gallantry in the East Room of the White House in Washington on September 21, 2010. Etchberger was killed in Laos in 1968 helping to save wounded men. UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg
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Richard Etchberger, center, carries his father's, Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Richard L. Etchberger, Medal of Honor that was present posthumously by President Barack Obama, following a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. Etchberger received the honor for his heroic actions in combat in Laos on March 11, 1968, after deliberately exposing himself to enemy fire in order to put his wounded comrades in rescue slings permitting them to be airlifted to safety. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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President Obama presents the Medal of Honor to the sons of the late Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Richard L. Etchberger -- (from left) Richard Etchberger, Corey Etchberger and Steve Wilson -- on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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** FILE ** Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell addresses supporters during a rally on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010, at her new campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)
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Police officers detain Russian gay rights activist Nikolai Alexeyev during a rally near city hall in Moscow, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. Moscow police has dispersed a gay rally and detained activists protesting homophobic policies of Moscow authorities. Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has called homosexuals "satanic" and routinely thwarted their attempts to hold a gay pride in Moscow. Police officers detained on Tuesday at least a dozen activists in a Moscow square near the city hall minutes after they brought out a papier-mache mummy that resembled Luzhkov and unfurled posters ridiculing him. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
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Police officers detain gay rights activists during a rally near city hall in Moscow, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. Moscow police has dispersed a gay rally and detained activists protesting homophobic policies of Moscow authorities. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
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Police officers detain a russian gay rights activist Nikolai Alexeyev holding a puppet of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov during a rally near city hall in Moscow, Tuesday, Sept., 21, 2010. Moscow police has dispersed a gay rally and detained activists protesting homophobic policies of Moscow authorities. Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has called homosexuals "satanic" and routinely thwarted their attempts to hold a gay pride in Moscow. Police officers detained on Tuesday at least a dozen activists in a Moscow square near the city hall minutes after they brought out a papier-mache mummy that resembled Luzhkov and unfurled posters ridiculing him. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
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Police officers detain gay rights activists during a rally near city hall in Moscow, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. Moscow police has dispersed a gay rally and detained activists protesting homophobic policies of Moscow authorities. (AP Photo / Sergey Ponomarev)
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Police officers detain gay rights activists during a rally near city hall in Moscow, Tuesday, Sept., 21, 2010. Moscow police has dispersed a gay rally and detained activists protesting homophobic policies of Moscow authorities. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, President of Iran, is escorted to the podium to address a summit on the Millennium Development Goals at United Nations headquarters onTuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran, addresses a summit on the Millennium Development Goals at United Nations headquarters on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. At top is UN General Assembly President Joseph Deiss. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran, addresses a summit on the Millennium Development Goals at United Nations headquarters, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran, addresses a summit on the Millennium Development Goals at United Nations headquarters on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran, addresses a summit on the Millennium Development Goals at United Nations headquarters on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Sen. Susan Collins, Maine Republican, planned to vote against advancing the bill that would have repealed "don't ask, don't tell" unless Democrats agreed to extend debate so that her colleagues could weigh in on other issues. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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US Marines Gen. James F. Amos , left, shakes hands with the Senate Armed Services Committee ranking Republican Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010, prior to testifying before the committee's hearing on his nomination for reappointment to the grade of general and the be Commandant of the Marine Corps. Committee members, from left are, Sen. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., committee Chairman Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and McCain. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
