Legislation introduced to award Medal of Honor to Father Kapaun
| |Thursday, Apr. 11, 2013
Sens. Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran introduced a bill today to award Father Emil Kapaun, a Kansas war hero, the Medal of Honor for acts of valor in the Korean War.
White House: Father Kapaun to get Medal of Honor on April 11
| |Thursday, Apr. 11, 2013
Father Emil Kapaun will be awarded the Medal of Honor on April 11, the White House announced Monday. The news release said “Chaplain Kapaun will receive the Medal of Honor posthumously for his extraordinary heroism while serving with the 3d Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division during combat operations against an armed enemy at Unsan, Korea and as a prisoner of war…”
President Obama presents Medal of Honor to Kapaun family
| |Thursday, Apr. 11, 2013
President Obama presented the Medal of Honor to relatives of Father Emil Kapaun on Thursday, calling the priest from Pilsen, Kan., “an American soldier who didn’t fire a gun, but who wielded the mightiest weapon of all … a love for his brothers so pure that he was willing to die so they might live.”
Kitsap County, Wash., sheriff’s deputy Krista McDonald honored with medal of valor
| |Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013
WASHINGTON — Krista McDonald knows all too well that carrying out the duties of a deputy sheriff can place her in the line of fire.
California highway patrol officers honored at the White House
| |Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden and Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday presented two California Highway Patrol officers the nation’s highest civilian valor award for their heroism in a deadly 2010 Fresno County shootout.
Obama honors North Carolina man who helps disabled veterans
| |Friday, Feb. 15, 2013
WASHINGTON — Michael Dorman of Fuquay-Varina, N.C., greeted President Barack Obama with a hearty swing of a handshake Friday at the White House as he received a Presidential Citizens Medal for his volunteer group’s work to renovate houses for disabled veterans.
Rep. Duncan Hunter may seek probe into delay on Medal of Honor for William Swenson
| |Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013
WASHINGTON — A California congressman said Tuesday that he was considering asking the Pentagon inspector general to investigate why President Barack Obama hasn’t approved the nation’s highest military award for gallantry for a former Army captain whose nomination has been stalled at the White House since last summer.
Afghan soldiers recount 4 U.S. troops’ heroic deaths at Ganjgal
| |Friday, Sep. 14, 2012
ASMAR, Afghanistan — The men received Bronze Stars posthumously for their actions, but the details of what took place before they died on Sept. 8, 2009, when the Taliban ambushed a joint American-Afghan patrol in Afghanistan’s Ganjgal Valley, hadn’t been disclosed.
Afghan survivors of Ganjgal battle dispute official account of Medal of Honor feats
| |Thursday, Sep. 13, 2012
ASMAR, Afghanistan — Nine Afghan soldiers who survived a 2009 battle that brought the first Medal of Honor to a living Marine since the Vietnam War have disputed the official accounts of how Marine Sgt. Dakota Meyer won the country’s highest military decoration.
Questions surround Army captain’s ‘lost’ nomination for Medal of Honor
| |Wednesday, Aug. 08, 2012
WASHINGTON — The 2009 battle of Ganjgal is perhaps the most remarkable of the Afghan war for its extraordinary heroism and deadly incompetence. It produced dozens of casualties, career-killing reprimands and a slew of commendations for valor. They included two Medal of Honor nominations, one for former Army Capt. William Swenson. Yet months after the first living Army officer in some 40 years was put in for the nation’s highest military award for gallantry, his nomination vanished into a bureaucratic black hole.
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