Topic: U.S. Congressional Medal Of Honor Foundation

Congressional Medal of Honor

The Congressional Medal of Honor is the United States? highest award granted to members of the Armed Services for valor in action against enemy forces.During the Civil War Gideon Welles, Secretary of Navy, developed an award for heroism by enlisted men ...
America pauses a moment to recall the World War II D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944, and those young GIs who died there. Did anyone in the media, or anywhere else, pause to question why this heartbreaking story keeps repeating itself in ...

Satire: Nuclear Holocaust

Everyone's got that one thing they're waiting for in life; that one thing which each and every one of us believes will complete us as individuals. Oh sure, I realize that any one can be blown up in a nuclear ...
Lone Pine, California, is not known as a hotbed of military and political intrigue. Bill Wenzel, stationed in Okinawa, Japan during the early 1970's, had no comment on the allegations that he falsified his military discharge papers, claiming to have received ...
Much like the combat which the men and women endured during wartime, there are many controversies surrounding America?s most decorated war veteran. Audie Murphy was considered America?s most decorated veteran with 33 medals earned in 27 months of combat.His ...
Although military ribbons might seem like a random mix of colors and decorative items, each one carries a great deal of significance. The highest precedence ribbons are worn on the top of a ribbon rack, descending from the wearer's right to ...
US appeals court panel: Law against faking receipt of military medals is unconstitutionalA federal appeals court panel in California says people have a right to lie about receiving military medals.The Tuesday ruling involves the case of Xavier Alvarez, who falsely claimed ...

Heroes and Traitors

A personal narrative is presented in which the author describes his experience speaking at the national convention of the U.S. Congressional Medal of Honor Society and listening to a presidential debate on the radio, and he comments on the financial crisis ...
New Medal of Honor Museum Aboard Aircraft Carrier in South Carolina Tells Heroes' StoriesAmid the sound of battle cries and machine gun fire, the stories of the nation's war heroes are now being told in a renovated museum aboard a moored ...