Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other fighting men got the Congressional Medal of Honor, in a homey ceremony on the White House lawn. Reading the citations, Harry Truman got stuck when he came to "Peleliu Island," called on brown-haired, heavy-set Medal Winner Major Everett P. Pope of Wollaston. Mass, to pronounce it. Next time he reached the same name, the President got grins all around by ducking the pronunciation, substituting the phrase "on that same island named a while...
...Medal for Benny (Dorothy Lamour, Arturo de Cordova; TIME...
...Annie Reid Knox he read a citation of the late Navy Secretary Frank Knox's war record, vicariously presented him with a posthumous Medal for Merit...
Ralph E. Truman, first cousin of the President, and commander of the Army's 35th Division until 1941, was awarded Missouri's Meritorious Service Medal for faithful Sunday soldiering as a Major General in Missouri's State Guard...
...Medal for Benny (Dorothy Lamour, Arturo de Cordova; TIME...