Examples of Congressional Medal in a Sentence
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Howard Stern, then a rising shock jock on terrestrial radio, went all in, calling for Goetz to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
Australian director Patrick Hughes is helming the project, which chronicles Thornton’s real-life survival story in the South China Sea that earned him a Congressional Medal of Honor.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 Jan. 2026
Against unrelenting machine gunfire, Wilson and his unit captured a strategically important hill, then pushed forward, even though he had been wounded multiple times, according to the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
The 20 soldiers who were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor – the highest military honor – for their role in the massacre will keep that award, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Sept. 25.
—Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
The Smithsonian Institution, which will house the Congressional Medal, has been at the center of that effort.
—Alana Wise, NPR, 6 Sep. 2025
By comparison, there have been more than 900 Nobel Prize winners and more than 3,500 Congressional Medal of Honor recipients.
—Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
Bucha served as the president of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society from 1995 to 1999 and also advised President Obama on foreign policy during his 2008 presidential campaign.
—Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2025
That includes a hilarious moment where Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene herself demands that Brian receive a Congressional Medal of Honor.
—Barry Levitt, Time, 23 July 2025
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Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
Australian director Patrick Hughes is helming the project, which chronicles Thornton’s real-life survival story in the South China Sea that earned him a Congressional Medal of Honor.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 Jan. 2026
Against unrelenting machine gunfire, Wilson and his unit captured a strategically important hill, then pushed forward, even though he had been wounded multiple times, according to the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
The 20 soldiers who were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor – the highest military honor – for their role in the massacre will keep that award, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Sept. 25.
—Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
The Smithsonian Institution, which will house the Congressional Medal, has been at the center of that effort.
—Alana Wise, NPR, 6 Sep. 2025
By comparison, there have been more than 900 Nobel Prize winners and more than 3,500 Congressional Medal of Honor recipients.
—Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
Bucha served as the president of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society from 1995 to 1999 and also advised President Obama on foreign policy during his 2008 presidential campaign.
—Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2025
That includes a hilarious moment where Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene herself demands that Brian receive a Congressional Medal of Honor.
—Barry Levitt, Time, 23 July 2025
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