Word: medals
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Jewish groups, like B'nai Brith, have applauded the movie as an powerful tool for education. And the national media as a whole has given extensive, and valuable, exposure to the movie. In addition, the U.S. Holocaust museum held a ceremony posthumously awarding a Medal of Remembrance to Oskar Schindler. A spokesperson for the museum added that Spielberg's movie "makes a big contribution to American awareness of the Holocaust...
...subsequent evasion of the truth on the issue during his presidential campaign. But speaking in the company of an audience that included Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, a veteran who has for some time demanded an end to the embargo, and Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his service in Vietnam, the President was able to overcome his limited political strength in favor of a fresh and long-needed shift in national priorities...
Officers James A. DeFrancesco, Joseph Wilson, Peter Neal, E.-J. Frammartino and Lt. Edward Huffey each received a Medal of Valor and an eight hour day-off, said Lt. Det. Frank Pasquarello...
...lowered onto a second-floor landing but I couldn't see much," medal recipient DeFrancesco told The Crimson last October. "So I called for a flashlight and I could make out two figures moving in the smoke. I called to them and picked them up and passed them out to the window...
...year later, Oksana had to sever another tie. As the Ukrainian economy worsened, the coach found it hard to support his family. He jumped at a job offer in Canada, but before leaving, he bequeathed Oksana to his colleague, Galina Zmievskaya. She had already trained 1992 Olympic gold-medal winner Viktor Petrenko. She took in Oksana as a third daughter...