Word: medals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...honor that stands out was when Kennedy gave me the Congressional Gold Medal...
...summer after his freshman year, Sharis tried out for the junior national team and was selected to the gold medal-winning crew at the world championships in Cologne, West Germany...
...summer, Sharis and Bernstein made the U.S. national team and went to Bled, Yugoslavia, where the boat narrowly missed out on a bronze medal by less than a bow ball...
...gold medal...
...Defense Department has a strange way with awards. Until this week, the crew of the U.S.S. Pueblo, imprisoned after the ship was seized by North Korea in 1968, had not received the Pentagon's POW medal. Since the U.S. and North Korea were not at war at the time, former Commander Lloyd Bucher and his men were classified as mere "detainees." It took an act of Congress to change the Pentagon's mind. Contrast that with the medals awarded to Captain Will Rogers III and Lieut. Commander Scott Lustig of the S.S. Vincennes last year. They were cited for their...