Finally a Medal of Honor winner receives the award and lives to tell the tale
The list of Medal of Honor recipients is full of awardees who received their award posthumously, as the Medal of Honor itself as described doesn’t easily lend itself to the living [my emphasis]; Sec. 578.4 Medal of Honor. (a) Criteria. The Medal of Honor, established by Joint Resolution of Congress, 12 July 1862 (amended by [...]