For example, more than 40% of Medal of Honor awards occurred during the Civil War or in the several years after the award was originally created in 1861. A small number of service members have ...

John Lee Levitow was born on November 1, 1945, to a Jewish family in Hartford, Connecticut. He originally intended to join ...

Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Col. Harvey 'Barney' Barnum Jr., honored for heroics during Vietnam War, returned to ...

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of thousands of people lined Constitution Avenue, Northwest, on Monday for the 20th National Memorial ...

Award recognizes individuals who have made lasting contributions to the U.S. while embodying the values of the American ...

The museum, created and operated by the nonprofit National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation, is independent of the federal government. “War is not about medals,” reads a prominently displayed ...

The National Medal of Honor Museum in Arlington offers patriotic displays of soldiers who performed extraordinary acts of bravery in combat, meriting the highest United States military honor.

Today, there are fewer than 137 living Recipients of the Medal of Honor. 53% of the living Recipients earned their Medals more than 50 years ago while serving in WWII (52) or Korea (20).