Sentences with phrase «posthumously awarded a medal»
New York's congressional delegation is working to get an upstate post office named after a Hudson Valley soldier who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery during World War II.
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Of the 82 Medals of Honor awarded to Marines during the entirety of World War II, 27 of them were for actions on Iwo Jima; of those, more than half were awarded posthumously.
City honours the 96 In September 2016, the 96 were posthumously awarded the Freedom of the City of Liverpool, and their families presented with a specially designed scroll and a medal inscribed with the name of their loved one.
At 11 a.m., state Division of Veterans Affairs Director Eric Hesse and Major General Patrick Murphy, the adjutant general of New York, open an exhibit posthumously honoring an Albany resident (Henry Johnson) awarded the Medal of Honor this year, War Room, second floor, state Capitol.
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer wants the New York National Guard to bring the Medal of Honor posthumously awarded to World War I soldier Sgt. Henry Johnson of Albany upstate to be put on public display.
Jade Village Restaurant in Chestnut Ridge, Rockland County was the place of choice for the Medal of Honor Delegation for MSG Juan E. Negron, posthumously awarded this unique combat decoration after 67 years, for gallantry above and beyond the call of duty after he answered his country's call for citizen...
Bolling was posthumously awarded the Legion of Honour by the French government and the Distinguished Service Medal by the United States Army.
Ford posthumously awards Calder the Medal of Freedom.
1993 Inducted into the National Museum of Dance's Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, NY Dance and Performance Award for Best Performance by a Visiting Artist, London, England Medal of Honor from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Spain (With John Cage, posthumously) the Wexner Prize of the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University, Columbus OH New York Dance and Performance Award («Bessie»), New York NY Tiffany Award from the International Society of Performing Arts Administrators, New York NY
Before Johns received the award, it was last awarded to a visual artist in 1977 when Alexander Calder was granted the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously by president Gerald Ford.
AWARD: Los Angeles architect Paul Revere Williams, FAIA (1894 - 1980), whose groundbreaking career boasts many firsts, is being presented with the AIA Gold Medal posthumously at the American Institute of Architects annual conference in Orlando.
The U.S. Military Academy at West Point has posthumously admitted Wang to its class of 2025 and he was also awarded a Medal of Heroism by the U.S. Army.