Today is National Medal of Honor Day – Congressional Medal of Honor Society
On National Medal of Honor Day, the Congressional Medal of Honor Society—the membership organization of the 66 living Medal of Honor recipients—took the opportunity to shine the spotlight on others—both military and civilian—rather than themselves.
Wreath Laying
Each year, Medal of Honor recipients lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. The “unknowns” buried here are all Medal of Honor Recipients, and it allows recipients to recognize the sacrifices and service of the men and women they served alongside and those who came before them.The Society also held a wreath laying ceremony on the USS Yorktown on Charleston Harbor in South Carolina at the home of the Society and its Medal of Honor Museum to kick off the week on March 18, 2023.
Medal of Honor Valor Trail
In addition to the annual Medal of Honor Day traditions, the Society announced a new interactive exhibit in its Medal of Honor Museum connecting places of valor like never before. A touchscreen-enabled global citation map pinpoints each of the 3,516 actions for which Americans were awarded the Medal of Honor is the first on-site component of the Medal of Honor Valor Trail™, a joint effort of the American Battlefield Trust and the Congressional Medal of Honor Society. The map can be found online, as well, at the valortrail.org website.
Category: Medal of Honor, Valor
About this time last year about ten percent of the living Medal of Honor recipients took the review in Charleston SC at the Citadel at was the 180th anniversary of the South Carolina Corps of Cadets. I happened to be present as well on that Saturday morning, and was honored to be in their presence.
The Citadel has never had a Graduate recipient of the Medal of Honor. But most recently had its second alumni receive one in the person of SFC Christopher Celiz ’08. He had completed two years at the school and left in good standing to join the Army, becoming a Ranger. He was KIA in 2018 and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in 2021. On Veteran’s Day 2022 he was awarded and hsi family presented a posthumous degree (BS Computer Science) and Class ring.
“How are my boys?”
Rest In Peace SFC Alwyn Cashe
Thank you to all the recipients. {salute}
To all those who gave the last full measure of devotion, I say thank you. But thank you is not the biggest nor best word. Indeed, I cannot find the words to pay the due tribute to all of the Medal of Honor recipients.