Today's Medal of Honor Moment for 29 December

Argghhh!
Ten is roughly the average number of Medals awarded per day over the year.  Yesterday there were no actions in our military history that caused a Medal to be awarded.  Today, we make up for that, with twenty Medals, only one posthumous, spanning from the Civil War to Vietnam - with seventeen of them being for the same fight in 1890.Civil War, Stones River, Tennessee and Chickasaw Bayou, Mississippi.RUSSELL, MILTON Rank and organization: Captain, Company A, 51st Indiana Infantry. Place and date: At Stones River, Tenn., 29 December 1862. Entered service at: North Salem, Ind. Birth: Hendricks County, Ind. Date of issue:...

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Posted Dec 29 2009, 05:29 AM by Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys..