A Message from the Host Committee
Of the over 42 million men and women who have served our country since the Civil War, only 3,447 have been presented the Medal of Honor. Unfortunately, many of those have been awarded posthumously. Today, there remain only 96 living Medal of Honor recipients in our country. Statistically, only about 1% of America's population will ever be in the same room with one Medal of Honor recipient...a much smaller fraction of that will ever have the opportunity to actually meet a recipient. More.