The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 4, January 27, 2002, Article 10

MEDAL OF HONOR RESTRICTIONS

  Tom Delorey writes: "Not only can the Congressional Medal
  of Honor not be bought, sold or traded, it can only be inherited
  by a descendent of the recipient. I would assume that this
  means that if a recipient or his lineal heir(s) dies without
  children, the medal would revert to the government.

  The status of other U.S. military decorations is vaguer. The
  government tells dealers that they cannot buy or sell other
  decorations, but nobody can seem to quote a law forbidding
  it. Enforcement is very spotty, if at all.

  P.S. The website for the Orders and Medals Society of
  America is  http://www.omsa.org."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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