Word: medal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When President Johnson last week clasped the ribbon around the neck of Marine Gunnery Sergeant Jimmie E. Howard, 38, it was only the 17th Medal of Honor awarded for the Viet Nam conflict...
...danger until he was satisfied that further bombing had knocked the fight out of the North Vietnamese who had outnumbered his men by 20 to one. Four of Howard's scouts won the Navy Cross, the second highest award, and 13 the Silver Star. Six other medal winners were posthumous...
...young widow and mother of two small children, Mrs. Gertraud H. Stewart, who three days later in the Pentagon accepted from Secretary of the Army Stanley R. Resor the 18th Medal of Honor won in Viet...
...green young teacher in a New York City slum school. Staircase was the official U.S. entry at the Moscow Film Festival in July. Sandy was there, rubbernecking and restaurant sampling, but left before she became the first American ever to win the festival's best-actress medal. Chances are that she still neither knows nor cares that last week Staircase (No. 2 draw in the U.S.) produced Christmas in August for Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall by grossing $248,651 - the alltime opening-week record for a U.S. theater...
...Viet Cong who distinguish themselves in combat, a military Liberation Medal, first, second or third class, is the reward. But in a people's army, officers may not bestow a decoration on a man unless his comrades in battle agree that he deserves it. More often, a good soldier is simply commended publicly, and perhaps given a title?"Determined to Win Soldier" or "Valiant Killer of Americans...