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🌊💙 ☮️ #PamelasMedalOfHonorRecipients

To date, of the 3,525 Medals of Honor awarded, 37 have been awarded to Asian-American recipients.

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March 25, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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🌊💙 ☮️ #PamelasMedalOfHonorRecipients

To date, of the 3,525 Medals of Honor awarded, 60 have been awarded to Hispanic-Americans.

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March 25, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Muslim-American Petty Officer Second Class Michael A. Monsoor, US Navy SEAL, posthumously awarded Medal of Honor.

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March 25, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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12 October 1945, conscientious objector - refused to bear arms due to moral, ethical or religious beliefs Private First Class Desmond Doss, US Army, presented highest military award Medal of Honor.

You shall not murder.
Exodus 20:13

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May 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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🌊💙 ☮️ #PamelasMedalOfHonorRecipients

To date, of the 3,525 Medals of Honor awarded, 19 received it twice.

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March 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Mary Edwards Walker, wife, MD, first woman U.S. Army surgeon, feminist, suffragist, suspected spy for the U.S., awarded a disability pension for muscular atrophy that she suffered while Prisoner of War, Medal of Honor recipient.

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March 25, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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🌊💙 ☮️ #PamelasMedalOfHonorRecipients

To date, there 32 Native American Medal of Honor recipients.

The Medal of Honor is America's highest military award for valor, great courage in the face of danger in battle. It's presented by the president in Congress' name.

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March 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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🌊💙 ☮️ #PamelasMedalOfHonorRecipients

To date, of the 3,525 Medals of Honor awarded, 19 received it twice. Twice recipient Major General Smedley Butler, U.S. Marine Corps, author of War Is A Racket.

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March 25, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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🌊💙 ☮️ #PamelasMedalOfHonorRecipients

Fathers and sons Medals of Honor recipients to date are: 1Lt. Arthur MacArthur (Civil War) and General Douglas MacArthur (WWII). Lt. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and at 56, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. oldest and only general to storm beaches of Normandy on D-Day.

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March 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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🌊💙 ☮️ #PamelasMedalOfHonorRecipients

To date, of the 3,525 Medals of Honor awarded, `18 have been awarded to Jewish-Americans.

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March 25, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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🌊💙 ☮️ #PamelasMedalOfHonorRecipients

To date, of the 3,525 Medals of Honor awarded, 97 have been awarded to 96 different African-American recipients. William Harvey Carney was the first. Robert Augustus Sweeney is only one to have been awarded two.

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March 25, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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ROTC to B.S. Mathematics to US Army Major General Charles Calvin Rogers, Medal of Honor recipient for his courageous leadership as Lieutenant Colonel while being wounded several times in Viet Nam 1 November 1968.

National Medal of Honor Day is 25 March

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March 16, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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🌊💙 ☮️ #PamelasMedalOfHonorRecipients

To date, of the 3,525 Medals of Honor recipients, 35 are related. Brothers, then Corporal Antoine Gaujot and then Captain Julien Gaujot, both U.S. Army, are MOH recipients.

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March 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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To date, of the 3,525 Medals of Honor awarded, 757 awarded to foreign born. Born Prince Edward Island, Canada, MOH recipient Private Daniel J. Campbell, US Marine Corps, Served during the Spanish–American War.

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March 25, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Commander Bruce Avery Van Vooris, US Navy, Memorial Marker is in the Medal of Honor Grove on the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge campus 1601 Valley Forge Road, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.

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March 23, 2026 at 5:23 AM
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Commander Bruce Avery Van Voorhis, US Navy, grew up in Fallon, Nevada; 1924, graduated Churchill County High School. 1925, received appointment to US Naval Academy, 1929, received commission. 1958, Fallon renamed its airfield after him.

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March 23, 2026 at 5:15 AM
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To date, youngest Medal of Honor recipient was age 11 Drummer William "Willie" Johnston, U.S. Army, who earned it during the Civil War. Drummer was a critical position as relayed officers' commands and other messages.

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March 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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🌊💙 ☮️ #PamelasMedalOfHonorRecipients

First Medal of Honor recipient was age 19 Private Jacob Parrott, US Army, immortalized in movie The Great Locomotive Chase.

Parrott's 18 fellow soldiers from that mission received Medals of Honor, 4 of them posthumously.

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March 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM