Medal of Honor Recipients
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In advance of an assaulting line, Sgt O'Neill attacked a detachment of about 25 enemy soldiers in the ensuing hand-to-hand encounter. He sustained pistol wounds as the advance continued, he received additional wounds but remained in active command of his sq…
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S\Sgt. Murray's squad was searching for an enemy mortar position when a member of his squad tripped a booby trapped grenade. Instantly assessing the danger to his men, Murray without hesitation or regard for his own safety, threw himself on the grenade abso…
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To keep forever living the
freedom for which they died
we dedicate this symbol of
our dead in World War II
Medal of Honor
Plt. Sgt. Joseph R. Julian
Killed in Action
Cpl. Rosaire M. Julian
M.O.M.M.1/c Lincoln G. Plimpton
M.O.M.M.3/c Roland H. Vil…
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Jacob Parrott (Civil War)
First Recipient
Congressional Medal of Honor
Resident of Hardin County
Husband of
Sarah (Lawrence) Parrott
of Alger
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West Point Cemetery was Norfolk's first municipal cemetery for African Americans, after an 1827 ordinance provided for their interment in a section of Potter's Field just north of the borough limits. The section was set off exclusively for the burial of Afr…
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Consecrated on 1857 by the Most Rev. John Martin Henni, first archbishop of Milwaukee, Calvary Cemetery is the final resting place for more than 300 Union Civil War veterans including two Medal of Honor recipients: Boatswain's Mate John Breen, USS Commodore…
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Daviess Co. natives who have received the Medal of Honor:
John J. Given-Corp, Co K, 6th U.S. Cavalry. Died while trying to recover a fallen soldier at Wichita River, Texas, July 12, 1870.
Thomas Cruse- 2nd Lt., 6th U.S. Cavalry. His charge at …
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A native of nearby Morgan County, Capt. Barber received our nation's highest decoration for bravery for heroically leading his Marine rifle company in a desperate five-day defense of a frozen mountain pass vital to the 1st Marine Division's breakout to the …
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Medal of Honor SFC Randall ShughartU.S. Army Special Forces SniperNewville, PACumberland County1958 - 1993Sergeant Shughart gave thesupreme sacrifice during a rescueattempt of a downed helicoptorpilot in SomoliaWe proudly honor SFC Shughartwith this memoria…
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Born in Lyon County Kentucky, Corporal Andrew Jackson Smith (1843-1932) served as a member of the 55th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry of the United States Army. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for extraordinary valor in the face of deadly enemy fire at …