Navy Seaman Is Only Black Man To Earn Medal of Honor Twice
Posted on February 12, 2017 by Katie Lange
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By Katie Lange
DoD News, Defense Media Activity
This blog is part of a weekly series called “Medal of Honor Monday,” in which we’ll highlight one of the nearly 3,500 Medal of Honor recipients who have earned the honor of wearing the U.S. military’s highest medal for valor.
To continue honoring our African-American Medal of Honor recipients during African-American History Month, we’d be remiss if we didn’t highlight Navy Ordinary Seaman Robert Augustus Sweeney, who saved the lives of two different people at two different times in the late 1800s.
DoD graphic by Regina Ali
DoD graphic by Regina Ali
Sweeney is one of just 19 men – and the only African-American – to have been awarded the Medal of Honor twice. His medals were some of the few that were awarded for actions that occurred during peacetime.
http://www.dodlive.mil/index.php/2017/02/navy-seaman-is-only-black-man-to-earn-medal-of-honor-twice/
