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The Liberty Medal is an annual award administered by the National Constitution Center (NCC) of the United States to recognize leadership in the pursuit of freedom. It was founded by the Philadelphia Foundation. In 2006 an agreement was made with the National Constitution Center (NCC) that the NCC would take over the organizing, selecting and ...
William Loren McGonagle (November 19, 1925 – March 3, 1999) was a United States Navy officer who received the Medal of Honor for his actions while in command of the USS Liberty when it was attacked by Israel in the Eastern Mediterranean on June 8, 1967, during the Six-Day War.
The Medal of Liberty is a circular, bronze medallion, seven inches in diameter, hand finished and patinated by Alex Shagin.On the obverse of the medal is the bust of Frédéric Bartholdi, facing slightly to the right and holding in his right hand his small bronze sculpture of Liberty Enlightening the World, his template for the construction of the Statue of Liberty National Monument at the ...
Sen. John McCain sparked a rhetorical fire on Monday when he called 'half-baked nationalism' unpatriotic in a speech after receiving the 2017 Liberty Medal.
Jean Donald Mathieu, left, is presented with the New York State Senate Liberty Award by state Sen. Bill Weber on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024, at Finkelstein Memorial Library in Spring Valley.
In 2007, O'Connor was named a Gold Medal Honoree by the National Institute of Social Sciences. [20] In 2008, O'Connor was made an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa at the College of William & Mary. [21] On March 26, 2008, O'Connor was given the Harry F. Byrd Jr. '35 Public Service Award from the Virginia Military Institute.
Sep. 15—Ryan Suitor, a school counselor who serves autistic children at Orleans Niagara BOCES, was presented Tuesday with the Liberty Medal, the highest honor given by the New York State Senate.
Among the honors Carter received are the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1999 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. Others include: Freedom of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, 1977; Silver Buffalo Award, Boy Scouts of America, 1978; Gold Medal, International Institute for Human Rights, 1979