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The Importance Of Financing The Medal Of Honor

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The Medal of Honor is the highest military award you can receive. It is awarded by congress and is granted to those who show bravery and go beyond the what they are called to do. 3,495 service men and women have received this award once and 19 of them even received two medals (National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation). Sadly, Louie Zamperini is not in this list of people who were awarded the Medal of Honor. Louie Zamperini was commissioned into the United States Air Force in 1941. One day on a search and rescue mission, his plane crashed into the ocean, leaving only him and two other men alive. Aboard the life raft with Mac McNamara and Russell Allen Phillips, Louie thought he only had minor injuries, but really he had broken all of his
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