He was not a Medal of Honor recipient. He was awarded 3 Purple Heart medals for wounds suffered during WWII and one Silver Star for Valor.
You dont' WIN the Medal of Honor. It is awarded for Valor and Bravery
Medal of Honor
A Private Joe P. Martinez was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on Attu Island on 26 May 1943. The award was given posthumously. The full citation can be found on www.army.mil/cmh.
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The Congressional Medal of Honor is awarded only for military service, not for civilian service. Civilians do not win it. The Congressional Gold Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom are the hight civilian honors given in the US. Now, it may be possible that the Congressional Medal Honor has been given by mistake a few times or to civilians who took heroic actions during a war they were officially not a part of. While most erroneous medals were revoked, it seems that a few civilians did get to keep theirs since they were in some paramilitary organization and did what would be considered heroic military service.
You dont' WIN the Medal of Honor. It is awarded for Valor and Bravery
it won the honor not the medal.
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she was persistant
the Spingarn medal. this medal was the NAACPs highest honor.
No, you do not have to die to win the Medal of Honor. There have been many winners who lived through the action for which they were cited, Audie Murphy, Jimmy Doolittle to name a couple.
gold medal
It won in 1968.
william carney
Sergeant William Carney was the first black soldier to be awarded the Medal of Honor. This was during the Civil War.
No. The Medal of Honor is a military medal for an extraordinary act of bravery in the armed forces. LL Cool J is a rapper who has never served in his life.
It is the highest award that can be given to a member of the US services for bravery in battle. Most of the service men who have been recipients of this medal have died in the course of their action. It is quite common for someone to say that a soldier "WON the Medal of Honor." This is incorrect, you don't "WIN" the Medal of Honor. It's not a contest. He was "Awarded the Medal of Honor" is the correct phrase. The name of the medal is: Medal of Honor. To call it Congressional Medal of Honor is not correct. It is awarded in the name of the Congress by the President of the United States.