ISBN10: 0700626654, ISBN13: 9780700626656, [publisher: University Press of Kansas, Kansas] Hardcover Hardcover. The Medal of Honor may be Americas highest military decoration, but all Medals of Honor are not created equal. The medal has in fact consisted of several distinct decorations at various times and has involved a number of competing statutes and policies that rewarded different types of heroism. In this book, the first comprehensive look at the medals historical, legal, and policy underpinnings, Dwight S. Mears charts the complex evolution of these developments and differences over time.The Medal of Honor has had different qualification thresholds at different times, and indeed three separate versionsone for the army and two for the navyexisted contemporaneously between World Wars I and II. Mears traces these versions back to the medals inception during the Civil War and continues through the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistanalong the way describing representative medal actions for all major conflicts and services as well as legislative and policy changes contemporary to each period. He gives particular attention to retroactive army awards for the Civil War; World War I legislation that modernized and expanded the armys statutory award authorization; the navys grappling with both a combat and noncombat Medal of Honor through much of the twentieth century; the Vietnam-era act that ended noncombat awards and largely standardized the Medal of Honor among all ...
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