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Medal of Honor Recipients: 1979-2014 (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Revised Dec. 2, 2014
Report Number RL30011
Report Type Report
Authors Julissa Gomez-Granger, Knowledge Services Group
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
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Summary:

The Medal of Honor (MOH) is the nation\'s highest award for military valor. It is presented by the\r President in the name of Congress and is often called the Congressional Medal of Honor. Since its\r first presentation in 1863, close to 3,500 MOHs have been awarded. In 1973, the Senate\r Committee on Veterans\' Affairs issued a committee print, Vietnam Era Medal of Honor\r Recipients 1964-72, followed by the committee print, Medal of Honor Recipients: 1863-1978, in\r 1979. Both committee prints list recipients and provide the full text of the citation, which\r describes the actions that resulted in the awarding of the medal.\r This report covers additions and changes to the list of recipients of the medal since the release of\r the committee print. For further information, see CRS Report 95-519, Medal of Honor: History\r and Issues, by David F. Burrelli and Barbara Salazar Torreon.\r The official citations are not always consistent in wording for all recipients. Some of the citations\r do not contain information such as company, division, date of birth, or place of birth. An asterisk\r (*) indicates those individuals who were awarded their medal posthumously.\r This report will be updated as new recipients are named.