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Who is the only president to win the congressional medal of honor?
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∙ 14y ago
Lincoln. The first recipients were some of Andrew's Raiders, a group of Union soldiers who staged a daring raid behind Confederate lines. They stole a railroad train, planning to run it up the line and burn it in a crucial tunnel, hoping to cause the tunnel to collapse. The train ran out of fuel before they got to the tunnel. The Raiders scattered but some were caught and hung.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoTheodore Roosevelt for action during the Spanish American War in 1898. But it was not awarded (posthumously) FOR NEARLY 100 YEARS LATER BY PRESIDENT CLINTON.
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∙ 14y agoTheodore Roosevelt for heroic action during the Spanish American War. But the MOH was awarded posthumously nearly 100 years later!
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∙ 14y agoThe CORRECT name is the Medal of Honor, and no one WINS it - It is EARNED! That said, the first Medal of Honor was awarded to Private Jacob Parrott during the Civil War
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Did Alvin York do to receive the Congressional medal of honor?
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