Besides three children, Shemin left behind numerous supporters who kept up the appeal for an upgrade. On June 2, 2015, his ...

Private Law 884. * * * By virtue of the authority vested by law in the President of the United States, the Congressional Medal of Honor, emblem of the highest military ideals and virtues ...

Citation: Master Sergeant Gordon ... heroism and devotion to duty were in keeping with the highest standards of military service and reflect great credit upon him, his unit and the United States ...

After leaving the U.S. military, he went back to his native ... His father received his Medal of Honor citation, signed by President Franklin Roosevelt on May 11, 1944, at a time when Crawford ...

The page was restored on Monday morning. It’s normal for a Medal of Honor citation, the military’s highest honor, to note “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his ...

William Shemin was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor nearly 100 years after his ... cut down 150 yards from the nearest cover. As his citation notes, Shemin “left cover and crossed an ...