I think what he didn't do is part of it.
Dumbingham posted that picture as an effort to magnify the greatness of a sodden bastard, pointing to his great service to the country.
Well phuk-a-diddle. He didn't do poop. He's no different than Earnest T. Bass. He got him a uneeform.
Shug? True hero, though. That part of his story is not told nearly enough. Could it be that his tremendous service, his devotion to country and to duty made him aware of what was truly important in life while a booze-addled wanna-be tin soldier got his priorities mixed up (and has thus phuked the mushy minds of a legion of dullard followers?)
Well now I'm confused, it appears that you're the only one that didn't do something. The rest of us did do something. As for Coach Bryant. When pursuing to be a head football coach, and appearing to be the front runner of the Arkansas Head coaching job, WWII broke out. Instead of taking the job he enlisted in the Navy. Not because he had to, not because he was headed down a dead end job, he was about to become the Head coach and instead he enlisted. He would eventually be discharged as a lieutenant commander.
Now since, as you say, you didn't do anything, I'll explain it to you. I don't expect you to know this or understand it since you're attempting to argue the military career of an enlistee when in fact you yourself didn't serve. When you enlist, the government owns you and tells you when to sleep, eat, where to go, who to shoot, etc. Trying to somehow defame Bryant's military career based on how great anothers was is as hard as me saying Shug had an unsuccessful military career because Patton's was better. In no way does me stating that take anything away of Shug's career and his willingness to have one. Nor does what Shug did deduct from Bryant's. After all, they were on the same team. A team in which you weren't apart of.