Born in Gallop, New Mexico Hiroshi Miyamura entered service in the U.S. Army and achieved the rank of Corporal during the Korean War. On April 24th Cpl. Miyamura distinguished himselfby conspicuous gallantry above and beyond the call of duty with Company H. Cpl. Miyamura’s company was occupying a defense position when the enemy fanatically attacked threatened to overrun the position. Cpl. Miyamura a machinegun squad leader, aware of the imminent danger to his men unhesitatingly jumped from his shelter wielding his bayonet in close hand-to-hand combat killing approximately 10 of the enemy.
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Nugent, Christopher
There existed in the Civil War a chivalry that would certainly not be seen in modern warfare. Sergeant Nugent exhibited gallantry in the face of brutal and often barbaric battle, but also demonstrated his decency and morality at the same time.
Born in County of Caven, Ireland in 1840, Christopher Nugent came to America and joined the US Marine Corps in the State of Massachusetts, rising to the rank of sergeant. During the Civil War Sgt. Nugent was assigned to serve on board the USS Fort Henry, on the Crystal River, Florida.
On June 15, 1863 while reconnoitering on the Crystal River in a boat that he had been given charge of out of Fort Henry, Orderly Sgt. Nugent ordered an assault upon a rebel breastwork fortification. (A Breastwork fortification is a temporary battle fortification). In the assault, the orderly sergeant and his comrades drove a guard of 11 rebels into the swamp, also capturing armaments and destroying their camp equipage.
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Roosevelt, Theodore
The only President of the United States to have won the Congressional Medal of Honor as well as the Nobel Peace Prize.
On the first of July, 1898 Lt. Col. Theodore Roosevelt demonstrated conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. On July 1, 1898 near Santiago de Cuba, while leading a charge up San Juan Hill, Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt, in total disregard for his own safety, and accompanied by only four or five men, led a desperate and gallant charge up San Juan Hill, encouraging his troops to continue the assault through withering enemy fire over open countryside.
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Shelton, Charles
Charles Shelton was born in Owensboro, Kentucky in 1938, attended Owensboro High School where he earned a football scholarship to a local college. He married his childhood sweetheart Miriam Volman and they had five children.
Charles entered the Air Force and became a pilot, he and his family were stationed in Okanwa, Japan in 1965 where he would serve tours in Vietnam. His missions involved flying reconnaissance over Laos. On one of these missions Captain Shelton was filming some caves in Laos that were suspected of being prisoner of war camps.
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Walker, Mary (Dr.)
Mary Edwards Walker was born on November 26, 1832 Oswego Town, New York. Mary’s father was a farmer and a self-taught doctor. Mary had the desire to enter the medical profession and to become a doctor like her father, and to that end graduated from Syracuse Medical College in 1853. She practiced medicine in Rome, New York, although the country was not quite ready to accept a woman doctor.
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