On the recordDecember 3, 1961
The medal may be awarded posthumously and, when so awarded, may be presented to such representative of the deceased as may be deemed appropriate by the Secretary of the department concerned.
Source
presidency.ucsb.eduEditor's note · Context
Executive Order 10977—Establishing the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal
Share & report
More from John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Nov 12, 1963
The United States, in fact all of us, love, I suppose, in a sense, lost causes, and on occasion the history of Scotland has been a lost cause.
Nov 11, 1963
The recommendations are likewise acceptable to me, and will be included in my budget recommendations to the Congress in January.
Nov 13, 1963
And I think that--the governmental standards, let me say, on the whole I think compare favorably with those in Washington, with those in some other parts of America.
Nov 12, 1963
The Major just said that the motto of the Black Watch is 'Nobody wounds us with impunity.'
Other voices in this conversation
