Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LAST JULY, Charles Liteky, who won the Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery in combat, publicly renounced his medal as a protest against U.S. support of the Nicaraguan contras...
Liteky served as a U.S. Army chaplain in Vietnam, and he won his medal for personally rescuing 20 of his comrades in a fire-fight while rallying his out-numbered men to fend off the enemy...
When he renounced the medal, he said he was ashamed that his country would ignore international law and "universally accepted norms of morality" to purposefully destroy Nicaraguan society...
Forwards Allen Bourbeau, Ed Krayer and Lane MacDonald went to Houston, along with defensemen Josh Caplan and Jerry Pawloski. All but Bourbeau were teammates on Harvard assistant Coach Ronn Tomassoni's bronze-medal-winning South team. All but Pawloski would return to Cambridge in September ready to play...
Bourbeau, who was second on the Crimson in points-per-game last season, finished second in Festival scoring, and his North team copped the gold medal...