Download or read book The Medal of Honor written by Dwight S. Mears and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Medal of Honor may be America’s highest military decoration, but all Medals of Honor are not created equal. The medal has in fact consisted of several distinct decorations at various times and has involved a number of competing statutes and policies that rewarded different types of heroism. In this book, the first comprehensive look at the medal’s historical, legal, and policy underpinnings, Dwight S. Mears charts the complex evolution of these developments and differences over time. The Medal of Honor has had different qualification thresholds at different times, and indeed three separate versions—one for the army and two for the navy—existed contemporaneously between World Wars I and II. Mears traces these versions back to the medal’s inception during the Civil War and continues through the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—along the way describing representative medal actions for all major conflicts and services as well as legislative and policy changes contemporary to each period. He gives particular attention to retroactive army awards for the Civil War; World War I legislation that modernized and expanded the army’s statutory award authorization; the navy’s grappling with both a combat and noncombat Medal of Honor through much of the twentieth century; the Vietnam-era act that ended noncombat awards and largely standardized the Medal of Honor among all services; and the perceived decline of Medals of Honor awarded in the ongoing Global War on Terror. Mears also explores the tradition of awards via legislative bills of relief; extralegislative awards; administrative routes to awards through Boards of Correction of Military Records; restoration of awards previously revoked by the army in 1917; judicial review of military actions in federal court; and legislative actions intended to atone for historical discrimination against ethnic minorities. Unprecedented in scope and depth, his work is sure to be the definitive resource on America’s highest military honor.
Download or read book Invitations to inaugural events and to formal presentations of academic decorations of honor by the rector and the senate of the Albertus Universit t zu K nigsberg 1894 1903 written by Albertus-Universität zu Königsberg i. Pr and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book of Orders of Knighthood and Decorations of Honour of All Nations written by Bernard Burke and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-22 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1858. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Download or read book The Book of Orders of Knighthood and Decorations of Honour of All Nations written by Bernard Burke and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monthly Catalogue United States Public Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-07 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Decorations and Awards of Double Recipients of the Medal of Honor written by Eric R. Caubarreaux and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Decorations and Awards of Double Recipients of the Medal of Honor presents an in-depth look at the decorations and awards, both foreign and domestic, of the twenty-one recipients of two Medals of Honor. Other published works by the author: Recipients of the Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, Navy Cross and Air Force Cross, Third Edition; Recipients of the Air Force Medal of Honor and Air Force Cross, Fifth Edition; The Decorations and Awards of Audie L. Murphy and Alvin C. York, The U.S. Military's Most Notable Infantryman, Second Edition; The Orders, Decorations and Medals of Sir Winston Churchill and T. E. Lawrence; For All Mankind, Recipients of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor; Recipients of the Congressional Gold Medal: Volume I, 1776-1900; The Decorations, Awards and Honors of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur: The U.S. Military's Most Decorated Serviceman; and The Decorations and Awards of George A. Custer, George S. Patton Jr. and George Washington.
Download or read book Texas Aggie Medals of Honor written by James R. Woodall and published by Williams-Ford Texas A&M Univer. This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Medal of Honor represents a story of gallantry, courage, and sacrifice. Conceived in the early 1860s, the Medal of Honor, awarded "in the name of the Congress of the United States," has been presented to more than 3,000 members of the United States armed forces. Seven of the 464 Medals of Honor awarded during World War II went to Texas Aggies. Author James R. Woodall, a 1950 graduate of Texas A&M University and a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, carried out a dedicated search of archives, family collections, and scores of other resources to gather, for the first time, the complete stories of these seven courageous men. Texas Aggie Medals of Honor will undoubtedly be of great interest to former students of Texas A&M University, members of the Corps of Cadets, and others associated with the university and its distinguished tradition of military training and service. But the book will also hold great appeal, in the words of one advance reader, "to those interested in the nation's highest award for valor and the individual stories of ordinary men who did extraordinary things when confronted by life-threatening situations in combat." " . . . a fast moving narrative of short, thoughtful portraits of the lives of seven World War II Texas Aggie Medal of Honor recipients. . . has meaning for readers both inside and outside the Texas Aggie Nation, and they will certainly grasp Woodall's admiration for these seven men and appreciate his tenacious research into their histories."--Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Download or read book The American Educational Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Public Documents of the Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from to written by and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 1328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Decorations Awards and Honors of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur written by Joseph P. Bowman and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-05-09 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time ever, a book solely devoted to the decorations, awards and honors of America's most decorated serviceman General of the Army Douglas MacArthur. Over a decade of research has yielded a concise portrayal of the many accolades given to a man whose military career spanned over fifty years and three major wars. General MacArthur was awarded every combat decoration the U.S. Military can bestow, plus over thirty-five foreign decorations, which includes the Medal of Honor, three Distinguished Service Crosses, seven Silver Stars, the Distinguished Flying Cross, three Bronze Star Medals, two Purple Hearts and the Air Medal. His longevity and adherence to the motto of "Duty, Honor, Country" has left a legacy in the annals of the world that will probably never be equaled. Other published works by the authors: The Bad Man from Bodie, The Violent Death of John Franklin Showers; Recipients of the Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, Navy Cross and Air Force Cross, Third Edition; Recipients of the Air Force Medal of Honor and Air Force Cross, Fifth Edition; The Decorations and Awards of Audie L. Murphy and Alvin C. York, The U.S. Military's Most Notable Infantryman, Second Edition; The Orders, Decorations and Medals of Sir Winston Churchill and T. E. Lawrence; For All Mankind, Recipients of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor; Recipients of the Congressional Gold Medal: Volume I, 1776-1900; and The Decorations and Awards of George A. Custer, George S. Patton Jr. and George Washington.
Download or read book Cambodian Decorations of Honor written by Geoffrey P. Oldham and published by Milymen Books. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Decoration Day in the Mountains written by Alan Jabbour and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-05-31 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decoration Day is a late spring or summer tradition that involves cleaning a community cemetery, decorating it with flowers, holding a religious service in the cemetery, and having dinner on the ground. These commemorations seem to predate the post-Civil War celebrations that ultimately gave us our national Memorial Day. Little has been written about this tradition, but it is still observed widely throughout the Upland South, from North Carolina to the Ozarks. Written by internationally recognized folklorist Alan Jabbour and illustrated with more than a hundred photographs taken by Karen Singer Jabbour, Decoration Day in the Mountains is an in-depth exploration of this little-known cultural tradition. The Jabbours illuminate the meanings behind the rituals and reveal how the tradition fostered a grassroots movement to hold the federal government to its promises about cemeteries left behind when families were removed to make way for Fontana Dam and Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Richly illustrated and vividly written, Decoration Day in the Mountains presents a compelling account of a widespread and long-standing Southern cultural practice.
Download or read book Readers Guide to Periodical Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Index to Periodical Articles by and about Blacks written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Calendar of the University of Michigan for written by University of Michigan and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
