Word: medals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Goooooooold Carpets. Son Cassius showed the Clay spirit in 1960 when, after winning the gold medal for boxing at the Rome Olympics, he went home and painted the front stoop red, white and blue. With his first professional victories, he began supporting a huge retinue of flunkies led by his adoring younger brother Rudy. With his conversion to the Black Muslim brotherhood, the retinue expanded to include any Negro with the gall to pass himself off as a Muslim. Duties in the Clay club of sycophants are simple: in return for a free room here or a $100 ringside seat...
...until later, after service in World War II -- during which Howe recevied the Legion of Merit and the Distinguished Service Medal -- and joining the Harvard law faculty, that Howe's work on Holmes enabled him to display the full range of his talents...
...When the action stopped shortly after dawn, 104 enemy bodies lay within the wire, many of them eviscerated or brained. All told, 253 Reds were killed in the clash, while the Koreans lost only 15 dead and 30 wounded. Captain Chung, recommended for the Tae Geuk (Korea's Medal of Honor), said: "Every day I want the enemy to attack my company. Always I am ready to fight...
There are even more embarrassing footnotes. After Pfc. Sadao Munemori was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, the citation of her son's heroism reached Mrs. Munemori behind the barbed wire of a relocation center at Manzanar, Calif. The American Legion canceled the charters of all Japanese American posts. In California in 1942, State Attorney General Earl Warren, campaigning for Governor, urged voters to keep Japanese out of California "so long as the flag of Nippon is flying over the Philippines...
...every morning to keep in shape, shinnied a 40-foot rope in his backyard on weekends, usually bicycled the three miles between his Houston home and the NASA Space Center. To his fellow astronauts, it came as no surprise when White took along a gold cross, a St. Christopher medal and a Star of David on his 62-orbit Gemini 4 flight, explaining afterward that they were "the most important thing that I had going...