{"id":139104,"date":"2023-03-25T16:00:59","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T20:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=139104"},"modified":"2023-03-25T16:00:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T20:00:59","slug":"today-is-national-medal-of-honor-day-congressional-medal-of-honor-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=139104","title":{"rendered":"Today is National Medal of Honor Day &#8211; Congressional Medal of Honor Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmohs.org\/news-events\/press-releases\/congressional-medal-of-honor-society-recognizes-the-service-and-sacrifices-of-others-on-national-medal-of-honor-day\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/news-media-hero.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On National Medal of Honor Day, the Congressional Medal of Honor Society\u2014the membership organization of the 66 living Medal of Honor recipients\u2014took the opportunity to shine the spotlight on others\u2014both military and civilian\u2014rather than themselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Wreath Laying<\/strong><br \/>\nEach year, Medal of Honor recipients lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. The \u201cunknowns\u201d buried here are all Medal of Honor Recipients, and it allows recipients to recognize the sacrifices and service of the men and women they served alongside and those who came before them.<\/p>\n<p>The Society also held a wreath laying ceremony on the USS Yorktown on Charleston Harbor in South Carolina at the home of the Society and its Medal of Honor Museum to kick off the week on March 18, 2023.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Medal of Honor Valor Trail<\/strong><br \/>\nIn addition to the annual Medal of Honor Day traditions, the Society announced a new interactive exhibit in its Medal of Honor Museum connecting places of valor like never before. A touchscreen-enabled global citation map pinpoints each of the 3,516 actions for which Americans were awarded the Medal of Honor is the first on-site component of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.valortrail.org\/\">Medal of Honor Valor Trail\u2122<\/a>, a joint effort of the American Battlefield Trust and the Congressional Medal of Honor Society. The map can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.valortrail.org\/places-of-valor\">online<\/a>, as well, at the valortrail.org website.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmohs.org\/news-events\/press-releases\/congressional-medal-of-honor-society-recognizes-the-service-and-sacrifices-of-others-on-national-medal-of-honor-day\/\">Congressional Medal of Honor Society Recognizes the Service and Sacrifices of Others on National Medal of Honor Day; Announces New Initiatives &#8211; Congressional Medal of Honor Society<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On National Medal of Honor Day, the Congressional Medal of Honor Society\u2014the membership organization of the &hellip; <a title=\"Today is National Medal of Honor Day &#8211; Congressional Medal of Honor Society\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=139104\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Today is National Medal of Honor Day &#8211; Congressional Medal of Honor Society<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":654,"featured_media":139105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[593,389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medal-of-honor","category-valor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/139105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}