Brenden Horn is a volunteer firefighter with the Vestal Fire Department who developed a challenge coin to honor Gaudet. Horn says challenge coins are popular with firefighters and other first resp ...

The Medal of Honor is the highest military award. It is given to military members, often posthumously, for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty.

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U.S. Army Army Maj. Gen. Charles C. Rogers is the highest-ranking Black servicemember to receive the Medal of Honor. His actions during the Vietnam War, when he was wounded and came under repeated ...