What is the Medal of Honor? Also referred to as the Congressional Medal of Honor, the Medal of Honor is the highest individual award available in the United States Military.

EXCLUSIVE: A new, bipartisan, bicameral bill would boost pensions for Medal of Honor recipients six-fold. The legislation, reintroduced by Texas Republicans Rep. Troy Nehls and Sen. Ted Cruz and ...

McNair has had numerous tributes in his honor across the country, including his name on schools, buildings, and planetariums. Here are a few: Posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of ...

The Medal of Honor has been presented nine times where the circumstances are “unknown” or “classified.” -The term “Congressional Medal of Honor” is incorrect. The Medal of Honor is ...

A Jan. 4 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows an apparent screenshot answering a question about the country’s highest civilian honor. “Can a president rescind the medal of freedom ...

and Matt Gaetz (FL), to vote no. Their no votes were to deny awarding the Congressional Gold Medal – the highest congressional honor – to the men and women of the Capitol and Metropolitan police ...

The honor would go to Master Sgt. Roderick “Roddie” Edmonds, an Army officer who helped save the lives of Jewish-American ...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is bestowing the second highest civilian medal on Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson — the lawmakers who led the congressional ... Biden will honor four people ...

according to the Congressional Medal of Honor Society. On Friday, Biden added five more. Cavazos, who was from Kingsville, Texas, entered the Army after graduating from what is now Texas Tech ...

according to the Congressional Medal of Honor Society. The seven recipients awarded Friday fought in two fundamentally different wars, at different times, and in different units, but all displayed ...