Over the course of the Vietnam War, a total of 238 Congressional Medals of Honor were awarded to American forces. Of that number, over sixty percent of the 150 Congressional Medals of Honor awarded were done so posthumously. One of the soldiers that won our country’s most prestigious award for valor made it out of ...
William Harvey Carney was an African American man of distinguished courage and bravery of the American Civil War and was a man before his time when he would receive the Congressional Medal of Honor for the heroic deeds that he did in the War. He would not receive the Medal of Honor until many years ...
General Colin Powell is one of the greatest military men of our era. Having performed admirably in the military, politics and the public arena, he has contributed much to the United States, and has inspired minorities everywhere. A truly deserving Congressional Medal of Honor winner, Gen. Powell has been in the service of our country ...
The markers on the graves of Almond Fisher and Leonard Funk, in Arlington National Cemetery, have these words just below their names- “Medal of Honor”. As winners of the Congressional Medal of Honor, they have earned their final resting place in Washington, D.C. But the mere words, Medal of Honor, do not do justice to ...
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