Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...

President Joe Biden on Friday posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor to five minority soldiers from the Korean War who may have ... the action in 2023 by a congressional commission set up to ...

Efforts to secure the Medal of Honor gained momentum in 2021 when Congress passed a resolution waiving the standard five-year limit on the award. The advocacy and a Pentagon review led to President ...

Outgoing US President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor, to 19 people at a White House ... Foundations (OSF), he has donated billions to support ...

Following the examples of his father and stepfather, he enlisted in the Army in 1950 at the start of the Korean War ... warranted the Medal of Honor. According to the Congressional Medal of ...

U.S. ARMY Bruno Orig U.S. ARMY Bruno Orig A Hawaii soldier who fell in battle during the Korean War was one of ... According to the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, of the over 3, 500 ...

Mississippian civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer was awarded ... accepted the award on behalf of the family. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the nation's highest civilian honor, presented to ...

Democratic philanthropist George Soros and actor-director Denzel Washington also were awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor ... to the Congressional Research Service. Notable Medal of ...

“For the final time as president I have the honor bestowing the ... the second-highest civilian medal to Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson, leaders of the congressional investigation into the ...

Democratic philanthropist George Soros and actor-director Denzel Washington were also awarded the nation's highest civilian honor ... to the Congressional Research Service. Notable Medal of ...

Cavazos, a Korean War hero, native South Texan and Texas Tech alumnus known for becoming the first Hispanic U.S. Army general, posthumously received a Congressional Medal of Honor from President ...