Alonzo Cushing Award
Congratulations to our own Alonzo Cushing for being posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor
by President Barack Obama in Washington, D.C. on November 6, 2014.
Video of the ceremony is here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/11/06/president-obama-awards-medal-honor-first-lieutenant-alonzo-h-cushing
A review of Alonzo's place in history may be seen here:
http://www.civilwar.org/education/war-department/alonzo-cushing-at-gettysburg.html
Please check this page in the future for announcements regarding special ceremonies to take place
in Pomfret to honor our Civil War hero!
by President Barack Obama in Washington, D.C. on November 6, 2014.
Video of the ceremony is here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/11/06/president-obama-awards-medal-honor-first-lieutenant-alonzo-h-cushing
A review of Alonzo's place in history may be seen here:
http://www.civilwar.org/education/war-department/alonzo-cushing-at-gettysburg.html
Please check this page in the future for announcements regarding special ceremonies to take place
in Pomfret to honor our Civil War hero!