Harry Truman: “We cannot allow the strength of this Nation to be wasted and our people's confidence in our free institutions to be…”

No more than one National Security Medal shall be awarded to any one person, but for subsequent services justifying an award, a suitable device may be awarded to be worn with the Medal.

It would have involved us in all-out war in the Far East, and we have been strenuously trying to avoid that all the time.

As far as I am concerned.

This ceremony could be no more than a magnificent burial.