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Medal of Honor

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• Originally published 04/17/2017

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

  Ed Hooper

  It was his Medal of Honor.

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• Originally published 03/28/2017

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

  Ed Hooper

  It was his Medal of Honor.

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• Originally published 08/01/2016

  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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• Originally published 06/02/2015

  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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• Originally published 11/20/2014

  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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• Originally published 11/06/2014

  A Civil War soldier is getting the Medal of Honor

  A 94-year-old woman is responsible.