Medal of Honor

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  3/1/2022
  

  Congress Votes Unanimously to Bestow Medal of Honor on Batallion of Black Women Who Served in Europe in WWII

  The unit of about 850 women was given a mammoth task of establishing mail logistics after the Allied invasion of France, and succeeded. Only a half-dozen now survive. 

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  November 27, 2019
  

  Soldiers got Medals of Honor for massacring Native Americans. This bill would take them away.

  by Kayla Epstein and Alex Horton

  More than 900 medals were purged in 1918 for not meeting the criteria. But it did not include the 20 Medals of Honor given after Wounded Knee, which one Army general at the time called a “cold-blooded massacre.”

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• 4-16-17
  

  All We Had of this Black Hero Soldier Was a Picture, and then Something Else Turned Up

  by Ed Hooper

  It was his Medal of Honor.

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• 4-16-17
  

  All We Had of this Black Hero Soldier Was a Picture, and then Something Else Turned Up

  by Ed Hooper

  It was his Medal of Honor.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-30-16
  

  Secrets, Denial, and, Decades Later, a Medal of Honor for a Vietnam Medic

  Sgt. Gary Rose, a medic with an elite group of commandos in 1970, is to receive the first Medal of Honor acknowledging the heroics of a soldier on the ground in the Secret War in Laos.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-2-15
  

  Two World War I Soldiers to Posthumously Receive Medal of Honor

  Pvt. Henry Johnson and Sgt. William Shemin of the Army will be recognized for valor for risking their lives to protect others on the French front line in 1918.

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• SOURCE: FOX News
  11-19-14
  

  Congressmen push to award Harlem Hellfighter posthumous Medal of Honor

  Despite having more than 20 gunshot wounds, Johnson almost single-handedly fought off his attackers armed only with a rifle and a bolo knife, using the rifle as a club once it had run out of bullets. All told, Johnson left four Germans dead and injured at least 20 others, who retreated.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11-6-14
  

  A Civil War soldier is getting the Medal of Honor

  A 94-year-old woman is responsible.