National Medal of Honor Museum

Saluting those who earned the medal

National Medal of Honor recipient National Medal of Honor recipient Jimmy Doolittle helped turn the tide in Jimmy Doolittle helped turn the tide in WW II and revolutionized aviation. WW II and revolutionized aviation.

We know that America would be a very diferent place were it not for some great men – those who have been our presidents, for example. Where would we be without psychological efect on Japanese morale, as well as giving an incredible morale boost to all Americans. The survival of many Doolittle Raiders was in part the result of Doolittle’s earlier Washington, or Lincoln or Jeferson? America would also be a very contributions to aviation, an ability to fy on instruments in weather. diferent place were it not for those who wear the Medal of Honor. As any pilot knows, without a horizon his human senses are

Not only were these men, and one woman, among the greatest useless. Commercial aviation was severely limited by weather. blood donors to our freedom, they came home and enhanced the Doolittle changed that. Thirteen years before the Raid, Doolittle bounty and the beauty of America – our arts, medicine, politics, helped develop an artifcial horizon and became the frst aviator to aviation, even sports. Examples are many, but here are a few you will take of and land using instruments alone. Doolittle opened the skies fnd in the NMOHM in Arlington. and made all weather aviation operations possible.

Theodore Roosevelt, for example, was a president and a Medal of The frst Medal of Honor recipient I met was Joe Foss. It was the Honor recipient who changed the face of America forever. Without day after I received the medal, and I went to the convention of the him we would not have our National Park system and the beautiful Medal of Honor Society in Houston Texas. Joe Foss met me at the parks it encompasses. He lost his wife and mother on the same door. He was twice the governor of South Dakota, and I was born day and sought solace in nature. He was there. His contributions to America are inspired by the comfort it brought him monumental: as a politician, the frst and preserved some of the most beautiful president of the American Football landscape in America for the comfort of League, a television star, the president all of us forever. Roosevelt established 150 of the National Rife Association, not to national forests, 51 federal bird reserves, mention 26 aerial victories in World War four national game preserves, fve national parks and 18 national monuments on more THE NMOH MUSEUM will II. As an aside, he was inspired to become an aviator after seeing a demonstration by than 230 million acres of public land. emphasize the great sacrifces Charles Lindberg, also a MOH recipient.

Equally important to their many so many people made for their But one incident in his life may best measurable contributions was the country. illustrate the importance of this museum. recipients’ immeasurable contributions He was once detained by airport security, to morale, and inspiration. No one epitomized these dual bequests who confscated his star-shaped Medal of Honor and set about to more than Jimmy Doolittle, an aviation and inspirational marvel – destroy it. They believed it to be some kind of Ninja weapon. (As an also a MOH recipient. aside, I had the same thing happen to me.) The country was outraged.

Early in WWII, after Japan’s devastating attack on Pear Harbor, Joe’s comments highlight one need for our museum: “I wasn’t upset morale in America was low. We were ill prepared for war and for me ... I was upset for the Medal of Honor, that they just didn’t vulnerable to future attacks. Japan was a powerful, confdent know what it even was. It represents all of the guys who lost their adversary who had driven us out of the Philippines, killing lives – the guys who never came back. Everyone who put their lives thousands in the Bataan Death March and incarcerating thousands on the line for their country. You’re supposed to know what the more in unbearable conditions. As I said, our morale was low, theirs Medal of Honor is.” high. Doolittle changed that. The National Medal of Honor Museum will educate our people

Despite what many thought was mission impossible, Doolittle on the MOH, but, more important, it will be a vault for the values modifed 16 B-25s and launched them from an aircraft carrier embedded in the medal and a sanctuary for the inspiration that will to fy over and bomb Tokyo. Doolittle’s Raid had a devastating drive our people to live those values. It will change America.

General Patrick Brady

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