Jumat, 13 Oktober 2017

When the Medal of Honor Recipient Shot the Medal of Honor Recipient

A double-barreled shotgun featured in the tragedy. In the nearly 150 years since Congress and President Abraham Lincoln authorized the Medal of Honor, the highest military decoration awarded by the U.S. government, only once has one MOH recipient intentionally killed another MOH recipient. In the early morning hours of New Year’s Day 1877, Claron Windus …

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