Harry Truman actually said...

"Sometimes you earn the medals and never get them."

"No one would throw them out now, I am sure of that."

"This is the place where it is my duty, sometimes, to pin Medals of Honor on men who have earned them at the front-the highest honor that can come to anyone in the military services."

"I want to congratulate the services on the way they are handling the women in the services."