While not rising to the level of 101 Medals, like 5 August, today was still a day of fire, thunder, and blood in the history of the Medal, with 68 Medals of Honor marking actions on this day - including that of Navy SEAL Mike Mansoor, who earned his Medal in Iraq on this day in 2006.We open with the Civil War, with 39 Medals awarded for actions on the same day, in 1864. Many of those Medals were earned by African-American soldiers in the Battle of Chapin's Farm, as they strove to prove they were every bit the soldier, in spite...
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