The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #10743   Message #1121435
Posted By: Melani
22-Feb-04 - 07:29 PM
Thread Name: Rosa Parks-Congressional Medal of Honor
Subject: RE: Rosa Parks
Re: Medals of Honor at Wounded Knee, etc.--they used to give the things out like candy--Tom Custer actually had two of them for the Civil War. They have tightened up the standards quite a bit; I think many, if not most of the people who get them nowadays are dead as the result of the action they are being honored for.