How to Use Congressional Medal in a Sentence

Congressional Medal

noun

• Royce Williams with his Congressional Medal of Honor.
  — Time Staff, Time, 25 Feb. 2026
• Thornton’s actions earned him the Congressional Medal of Honor.
  — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 26 Jan. 2026
• The Smithsonian Institution, which will house the Congressional Medal, has been at the center of that effort.
  — Alana Wise, NPR, 6 Sep. 2025
• Trump paid tribute to a helicopter pilot who was wounded in the operation but still managed to carry out the mission and paused to award him the Congressional Medal of Honor.
  — Aamer Madhani, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026
• Howard Stern, then a rising shock jock on terrestrial radio, went all in, calling for Goetz to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
  — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
• Trump paid tribute to a helicopter pilot who was wounded in the operation but still managed to carry out the mission and paused to award him the Congressional Medal of Honor.
  — ABC News, 24 Feb. 2026
• The Congressional Medal of Honor Society recommendations for the medal must be submitted within three years of the valorous act, and the medal must be presented within five years.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026
• All proceeds from the sale will go to the Medal of Honor Foundation, a non-profit that secures private support for living recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor and their families.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 9 Apr. 2026
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Last month, Victor Greenawalt, a survivor of the shooting who used his body to protect another student, received a Citizen Honor Award from the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.
  — Riley Moser, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
• Annunciation Catholic School shooting survivor, Victor Greenawalt, will receive a Citizen Honor Award from the Congressional Medal of Honor Society on Wednesday.
  — Chloe Rosen, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2026
• 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
• The 83-year-old singer and songwriter has been honored with the Congressional Medal of Honor Society's National Patriot Award and has entertained troops on more than 30 United Service Organizations (USO) tours, according to Soldier Valley Spirits.
  — Teresa Mull, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026
• Tied to the Memorial Day holiday, this year’s show includes the 2026 AMAs Salute initiative with partnerships alongside 11 military and veterans service organizations like the USO, Congressional Medal of Honor Society and the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.
  — Jeff Benjamin, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026