Friday was the 150th anniversary of the Medal of Honor and tomorrow, Sunday, is National Medal of Honor Day.
On Friday, at a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, several Medal of Honor recipients honored three civilians with “Citizen Service Before Self Honors.” Heroes who Medal of Honor recipient Patrick Brady said “are the kind of people we fought for.”
Please read here who those civilian heroes are, what they did and where the idea for this honor came from.
Watch the video — courtesy Stars and Stripes — below
The author is a retired U.S. Air Force officer and a writer.