Posted on 05/01/2009 10:03:44 PM PDT by ak267
Mary Edwards Walker, one of the nation's 1.8 million women veterans, was the only one to earn the Congressional Medal of Honor, for her service during the Civil War. She, along with thousands of other women, were honored in the newly-dedicated Women in Military Service for America Memorial in October 1997
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It's the Medal of Honor presented by the President in the name of Congress, not the Congressional(sic) Medal of Honor.
I shall remember that in the next trvial pursuit game.
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