Argghhh!

There were six Medals earned for actions on this day during our history. Two during a Civil War cavalry skirmish, two, one posthumous, during WWII, and two, both posthumous, during the Vietnam War.Civil War, and a sharp little cavalry engagement at Nineveh, Virginia.ADAMS, JAMES F. Rank and organization: Private, Company D, 1st West Virginia Cavalry. Place and date: At Nineveh, Va., 12 November 1864. Entered service at: ------. Birth: Cabell County, Va. Date of issue: 26 November 1864. Citation:...

U.S. Air Force officers controlled traffic from this makeshift setup at Port-au-Prince’s airport on Monday, Jan. 18 (Julie Platner for The Wall Street Journal) Boq

...there's a pill for that.

Earning their Humanitarian Assistance Medal... NAVAL BASE VENTURA COUNTY POINT MUGU, Calif. (May 3, 2013) Chief Naval Aircrewman Jay Okonek, left, and Naval Aircrewman 1st Class Jason Blase, both assigned to the "Merlins" of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 3, help guide pilots as they fill a 360-gallon capacity precision helicopter firefighting Bambi bucket to help extinguish fires near Naval Base Ventura County (NBVC) Point Mugu's base housing. Three helicopters from the San Diego...

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Now, as some of you (about twenty, unless ElTee is ditzier than she pretends to be) will remember, I mentioned in Part One that I had once again demonstrated the futility of attempting to gain instant acclimation to sub-zero (Centigrade, Aaron) temperatures by wandering around in a blizzard immediately (okay, fourteen hours – picky, picky, picky) after departing the lush greenery of Mesopotamia. Not that I don’t *enjoy* dressing up like Roald Amundsen and daring the elements, y’unnerstand...

There are nineteen Medals awarded for actions on this day, four of them posthumous. They span the Civil War, Philippine Insurrection, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam.Civil War. The relentless pressure of the Army of the Potomac continues against the Army of Northern Virginia.CAMPBELL, JAMES A. Rank and organization: Private, Company A, 2d New York Cavalry. Place and date: At Woodstock, Va., 22 January 1865; At Amelia Courthouse, Va., 5 April 1865. Entered service at:------. Birth: New York, N.Y...