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Native American code talkers to be honored
Nov. 19, 2013
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May 31, 1998
WASHINGTON -- When Congress awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to the famous Navajo code talkers a decade ago, it failed to recognize members of other tribes who also used their native tongues to transmit wartime messages the enemy could not decipher.
The meeting was scheduled more than two years ago, but the date--Sept. 11--could not have been more poignant for a gathering of nearly 90 of the nation’s Medal of Honor recipients at Barksdale Air Force Base.
Sept. 12, 2002
Speaking to the nation’s greatest war heroes Sunday, U.S. Sen.
Nov. 16, 1987
The lives of Medal of Honor recipients are celebrated aboard a moored aircraft carrier.
May 25, 2007
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One day after President Bush awarded the coveted Medal of Honor to the family of a Marine who died after throwing his helmet and his body on a grenade in Iraq, a California congressman introduced a bill to require the Pentagon to put more real gold in the medal.
Jan. 13, 2007
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July 29, 2008
WASHINGTON - It took decades, congressional legislation and a review of thousands of war records, but two dozen veterans of World War II, Korea and Vietnam received the Medal of Honor on Tuesday from President Obama at an emotional White House ceremony.
March 18, 2014
Obama awards Medal of Honor to 24 veterans, cites ‘unimaginable’ valor