Tragedy and Honor

The US government held Crawford’s credible actions in high esteem and honored him posthumously with the Medal of Honor, America’s highest military decoration. His award was received by his dad as Crawford has already been pronounced dead. Everybody was coming into terms that Crawford was now a German Prisoner of War who must have been dead by now! The award ceremony was “a brief, impressive ceremony” and the medal was handed by the US Maj-Gen Terry Allen to Crawford’s father George.