The Congressional Medal of Honor is America’s highest and most distinguished military award. It recognizes extraordinary courage, valor, and sacrifice. Since the metal was first awarded in the 1860s, only about 3,500 service members have received that honor, many of them posthumously.
In 2003 the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation published a commemorative book profiling metal honorees.
At the time, the president of the Foundation was retired Air Force Lt. General Nicholas Kehoe, and it was him that I interviewed about the book.
We actually spoke the day before Veterans Day in 2003, as the US was newly embroiled in war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
So here now, from 2003 Nicholas Kehoe.