Obama awards Medal of Honor to 24 overlooked veterans

Name: Obama awards Medal of Honor to 24 overlooked veterans
Uploaded: 2014-03-18T21:22:25Z
Duration: P4753S
Description: Seeking to correct potential acts of bias spanning three wars, President Barack Obama on Tuesday will award the Medal of Honor to 24 Army veterans following a congressionally mandated review to ensure that eligible recipients were not bypassed due to prejudice.

Clip: 03/18/2014 | 1h 19m 13s

Seeking to correct potential acts of bias spanning three wars, President Barack Obama on Tuesday will award the Medal of Honor to 24 Army veterans following a congressionally mandated review to ensure that eligible recipients were not bypassed due to prejudice.

Aired: 03/18/14

Rating: NR

Problems Playing Video? | Closed Captioning

Major corporate funding for the PBS NewsHour is provided by BDO, BNSF, Consumer Cellular, American Cruise Lines, and Raymond James. Funding for the PBS NewsHour Weekend is provided by Consumer …

Major corporate funding for the PBS NewsHour is provided by BDO, BNSF, Consumer Cellular, American Cruise Lines, and Raymond James. Funding for the PBS NewsHour Weekend is provided by Consumer Cellular and American Cruise Lines. For a complete list of funders for the PBS NewsHour and PBS NewsHour weekend, click here.

Support provided by:

Obama awards Medal of Honor to 24 overlooked veterans

More News and Public Affairs Shows