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...Dick Button `52 had already won an Olympic gold medal when he came to Harvard in 1948. He went on to win a second...
...Olympic gold medal in men's singles during his senior year...
...tough on the ol’ self-esteem. The only one I feel a kinship with is the friend who’s going to Colorado to be a ski bum for a few years, though I’m sure he’ll win an Olympic skiing medal at some point...
They all knew it was ridiculous, Ambrose told Karen Tumulty, then with the Los Angeles Times, in 1992. "Bob wanted to turn the medal down ... It was just another night out," he said. "We just got hit." Kerrey and the others believed the "honor" was politically motivated: Nixon's unpopular war needed a few more heroes. Kerrey's buddies told him to accept the medal for the sake of all those who had fought and lost more than he had. Kerrey's sister Jessie Rasmussen says he was still struggling with a decision as the family gathered in Washington...
...mass grave and buried the 21 bodies, including, she says, three pregnant women. She was outraged to find out that the man who led the raid was given a Bronze Star for it. "They come here and they kill unarmed women and children and he got a medal...