The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 38, September 22, 2002, Article 8

ROOSEVELT MEDAL COMPLETES ROUND TRIP

  Dick Johnson writes: "A medal made news last Monday,
  September 16th, for completing a trip that landed it back
  in the White House.

  In January 2001, then President Clinton presented the
  Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military decoration,
  to Theodore Roosevelt's family.  Last Monday they
  presented it to President Bush for deposit back in the
  White House.

  It will be placed for display next to Theodore Roosevelt's
  Nobel Peace Prize Medal on the mantel in the Roosevelt
  Room, a shrine to both presidents named Roosevelt.
  Theodore "Rough Rider" Roosevelt received it for his
  military action at the battle of San Juan Hill, July 1, 1898.

  This was not the first such posthumous awarding of the
  Medal of Honor.  Nor is it the longest such delay.
  Previously, the nation's most prestigious decoration has
  been awarded to Civil War recipients long dead.  Such
  delays give the word "posthumous" a bad reputation. Such
  awards are understandable when the awardee dies in the
  military action, but how long must it take when the awardee
  survives?

  In Theodore Roosevelt's case it took 101 years and 6
  months.  The Associated Press story is at
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25639-2002Sep16.html

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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