Stories of Sacrifice. We Are Forever Grateful. Medal of Honor Recipients are a part of something greater. They collectively embody the values that we as a country strive to Dwight W. Birdwell. John J. Duffy. Dennis M. Fujii. Edward N. Kaneshiro.
The three most recent Medal of Honor recipients from Washington were recognized Wednesday in a public ceremony at the Capitol Rotunda. William Swenson,Ty Carter, Leroy Petry, Joe Jackson.
The twenty-two soldiers and one civilian who participated in the "Great Locomotive Chase" were led by civilian James J. Andrews. Six raiders received the Medal of Honor on March 25, 1863. The other thirteen received the medal later; Andrews, a civilian, did not qualify for it. On March 3, 1863, both services made the decoration permanent. President Joe Biden awards the Medal of Honor to retired Army Col. Paris Davis for his heroism during the Vietnam War, in the East Room of the White House, Friday, March 3, 2023, in Washington On May 21, 2021, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., will award the Medal of Honor to Colonel Ralph Puckett, Jr., United States Army, Retired, for conspicuous gallantry during the Korean War First Sgt. Leonard Funk Jr. Funk was a Medal of Honor recipient and one of the most decorated paratroopers of World War II. He jumped into Normandy on D-Day, earned the Distinguished Service Cross
Army Master Sgt. Earl Plumlee received the Medal of Honor on Thursday alongside family members of Sgts. 1st Class Alwyn Cashe and Christopher Celiz, who were posthumously awarded the nation’s
1.3K. As Larry Taylor (’66) sits for a photograph in the Vietnam War section of the Coolidge National Medal of Honor Heritage Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, a young soldier wearing an orange Vols shirt stands to the side looking on at the country’s most recent Medal of Honor recipient.
On July 5, 2022, Biden awarded the Medal of Honor, posthumously, to Kaneshiro. It was received by his youngest son, John, who was 4 months old when his father deployed to Vietnam. John Kaneshiro
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