On March 20, 1861, Charles P. Mattocks, a college student at Bowdoin College in Maine, entered the office of his German and elocution...... read more
TECHNICAL SERGEANT CHARLES COOLIDGE: A MEDAL OF HONOR HERO OF THE GREATEST GENERATION
April 7, 2021Technical Sergeant Charles Henry Coolidge earned the Medal of Honor in 1944 for his heroic conduct during the U.S. Army’s epic struggle to...... read more
Women’s History Month: the Bellrichards
March 24, 2021Leslie Bellrichard had already endured a life of challenges when he was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1966. Born in 1941 in...... read more
John King and Henry Hogan: Two Irish Double Recipients
March 16, 2021More than 250 men born in Ireland have earned the Medal of Honor, the United States’ highest decoration for valor. Of these men,...... read more
“I Did Not Send For You” – John Fox and the Medal of Honor
February 19, 2021by Cory M. Ackerman John R. Fox, a native of Ohio, attended the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program at Wilberforce University. Originally,...... read more
The nation’s highest medal for valor in combat.
The mission of the National Medal of Honor Museum and its attendant education center is to commemorate the stories of our Medal of Honor recipients, unite Americans around what it means to be patriotic, and inspire us to find the hero within ourselves. America needs a National Medal of Honor Museum. You can help.
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