Senator Joni Ernst with leaders of the Nationwide State Funeral for Warfare Veterans Group
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Recognition for a Patriotic American who exemplifies the sacrifice, resilience, and repair of the 16 million men and women who served throughout WWII –
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State Funeral for World Warfare Veterans Names U.S. Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa Recipient of 2023 George Marshall Award.
– Recognition for a Patriotic American who exemplifies the sacrifice, resilience, and repair of the 16 million men and women who served in our Armed Forces throughout World Warfare II –
The State Funeral for Warfare Veterans group introduced in the present day that United States Senator from Iowa, the Honorable Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), will obtain the 2023 nationwide George Marshall Award. The glory acknowledges a patriotic American who finest celebrates the sacrifice, resilience, and repair of the hundreds of thousands of men and women who served in our Armed Forces throughout World Warfare II and the Korean Warfare. Earlier winners of the award embrace West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin in 2022, World Warfare II Medal of Honor recipient Military Tech Sgt. Charles Coolidge in 2021, World Warfare II Medal of Honor recipient USMC Hershel “Woody” Williams in 2020, and Congressman Steve Scalise (R-LA) in 2019.
5 Star U.S. Military Normal George Marshall led the American army throughout World Warfare II. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill known as him “the organizer of the Allied Victory within the Second World Warfare.” He was Military Chief of Employees from 1939 until 1945. Marshall later served as Secretary of State below President Truman the place he crafted the Marshall Plan for the financial restoration of Europe.
Presenting the award can be Will Swenson, the Vice President of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society and a recipient of the Medal of Honor from the Warfare on Terror.
United State Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) introduced the 2021 award to Military Tech Sergeant Coolidge on Sign Mountain, Tennessee, on March 15, 2021. Congressman Scalise (R-LA) acquired his award on the Nationwide World Warfare II Museum in New Orleans in 2019.
Senator Ernst has been a champion of Veterans throughout her 10 years on Capitol Hill. After graduating from Iowa State College, she served within the Iowa Military Nationwide Guard, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. Her Congressional assignments converse to her reverence for our army. She serves on the Armed Companies Committee within the Senate and on the Subcommittee for Cybersecurity, Airland, and Rising Threats and Capabilities the place she is the rating member.
She labored hand in glove with our group to guarantee the final Medal of Honor recipient from Korea, Military Col. Ralph Puckett, be allowed to lie in honor within the Rotunda of the Capitol in Washington, DC, similar to the final MOH holder from World Warfare II, USMC Hershel “Woody” Williams.
The State Funeral for World Warfare II group originated the thought for a Nationwide Funeral for the Final Medal of Honor recipient from Korean and World Warfare II. The service for USMC Corporal Hershel Woody” Williams befell within the Capitol on July 14, 2022. The service for Col Ralph Puckett can be this coming Monday, April 29, 2024 within the Rotunda of the Capitol. Speaker of the Home of Representatives Mike Johnson and Senator Chuck Schumer will converse.
146 United States army personnel acquired the Medal of Honor for valor in fight through the Korean Warfare. Col. Ralph Puckett, Jr. of Georgia was the final to be “reassigned to heaven.’ Of the 5.7 million women and men who served in Korea, lower than 500,000 are nonetheless alive.
“The roughly 500,000 remaining veterans of the Korean Warfare, and their households will profit from a Nationwide Funeral in Washington D.C. for the ultimate Medal of Honor recipient Col Puckett,” mentioned Invoice McNutt, Co-Founder and Nationwide Chairman. “This can be a closing salute to the nice Korean Warfare era.”
“With out the efforts of Senator Ernst it could have been far more difficult to meet our mission of convincing Speaker Johnson to permit Col. Puckett to lie in Honor within the Capitol.” says Nationwide Board member Brett Reistad, a former Nationwide Commander of the American Legion.
This effort is the brainchild of McNutt’s 10-year-old daughter, Rabel, a public- faculty pupil, in honor of her godfather, United States Military Employees Sergeant Walter Ehlers, the oldest holder of the Congressional Medal of Honor when he died in 2014. He acquired the medal for his gallantry throughout The Battle for Normandy in France, June 1944.
Mr. Brent Casey, grandson of “Woody” Williams, and State Funeral for World Warfare Veterans Chair in Kentucky, mentioned “It’s becoming that this nationwide George Marshall award, that has been introduced to 2 World Warfare II Medal of Honor recipients previously, would honor a terrific bi-partisan American chief like Senator Joni Ernst in the present day.”
The presentation can be made on the Capitol in Washington, DC on Monday April 29, 2024 at roughly 1:45pm.
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