Harry Truman: “We must help to the limits of our strength, and we will.”

Members of the armed forces of the United States who are awarded the decoration established by this order are authorized to wear the medal and the ribbon symbolic of the award, as may be authorized by uniform regulations approved by the…

I feel the Committee has done a thorough job of investigation and I wish to call your attention to these suggestions, some of which, I am sure, would be helpful.

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.

We venerate these documents not because they are old, not because they are valuable historical relics, but because they still have meaning for us.