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Highest honor also the rarest Terror war may create cases to award medal.

Publication: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Publication Date: 31-MAY-04 		Format: Online - approximately 1143 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Highest honor also the rarest Terror war may create cases to award medal.(News)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Russell Lissau Daily Herald Staff Writer

Since its creation in 1861, the Medal of Honor - our nation's highest military award - has been awarded only 3,459 times. It recognizes acts of extraordinary bravery in battle, actions that occur, as the citation itself states, "at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty."

Aside from two citations awarded posthumously for heroism during the United States' 1993 mission in Somalia, the last actions that earned Medals of Honor occurred during the Vietnam War. None were bestowed for the Persian Gulf War, nor were any earned during the nation's subsequent military conflicts around the globe.

But as the war against terrorism continues in the Middle East, military experts, politicians and historians believe new instances of medal-caliber battlefield gallantry could come to light.

"Any time you have people in harm's way, you're going to have people going above and beyond the call of duty," said Gurnee resident Allen Lynch, a Vietnam War veteran who is one of only two...

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