As of 2019, who is the only female to win the US Medal of Honor?
Correct answer: Mary Edwards Walker
Major Audie Murphy
The Medal of Honor is not won. It is earned.
FaithfulReader
It's an absolute shame that she's not better known. Maybe if someone did a movie about her, more people would care.
Player #3113010 Alex
President Jimmy Carter reinstated the awarding of the medal. She never returned it and wore it until she died. Her family still has it.
Player #15051914
My husband's grandfather ( her great nephew, Edward Walker) petitioned tirelessly for it's reinstatement, finally achieving success just prior to his death in 1977. If not for him, she would have remained a bare footnote.
Tanya
Player #8400550, she was a surgeon in a war zone. Plus she crossed into enemy territory to treat patients. That's heroic in my book.
Player #3906185
FaithfulReader, because of this game she was given credit for her achievements shame she isn't well known but I know her name now and much more history has been verbally pasted along. we can all relate all of our knowledge
NeedlessCoin5
black men got the right to vote and to own property, plus open a business and be his own boss before women, black or white did.
mellowdeeee
NeedlessCoin5, and native American people didn't get to vote till the late 1970s
Player #1659406 TRE
audie Murphy is the most decorated soldier
☆☆☆ Rising Soon
Major Audie Murphy, Not won,
not earned ,
awarded .....
Micki
Proud of my Alma mater, Syracuse! The medical college has evolved into Upstate Medical Center, where the first kidney transplant was performed.
Doggy69woof
FaithfulReader, You don't get the MOH for that. In my mind there are 0 women winners
Sweet Ray
just another example of the re-write of history why does the truth scare them
Beadles
CeCe, another woman whose contributions are largely unknown is Grace Hopper. A pioneer in computer programming she was a Navy admiral.
Puddintame
NeedlessCoin5, Few people, except women, know the second class citizen status they are born to, and fight against their entire lives.
Puddintame
Major Audie Murphy, That's a win any day!
Player #92723922
Thunderduck,
Maybe YOU don't know the author of "Band of Angels", but she's not "unknown". Her name is Elizabeth Norman.
Lionessa
JACK , Since always. The Patriarchy has existed since the dawn of time. It's time for it to end...
CeCe
Yep. Women are always being "removed" from history. And society continues to thrive from their contributions. Hedy Lamar invented WiFi; present-day Marion Croak has created Internet innovations that support remote work - yet, WHO HEARS THIS?!?
Definitely, too, the Medal of Honor is not just an award. It is earned through great toil and sacrifice.
Player #32543330
another sad story of white men in power trying to whitewash history to their liking. thankfully her relative fought for the truth.
Suzy
FaithfulReader, also a shame that there's only one woman to have earned this medal.
Laura
Major Audie Murphy, thank you.
Player #34641139
FaithfulReader, I'm a little ashamed that I've never heard of her.
Player #38618593
zoezepplin97,
The QUESTION asks who was the only woman to win it.
Donna
mellowdeeee, I had NO IDEA of this!
TJ SISTA
You go girl! 😆
Player #47872375
Major Audie Murphy, it is awarded
Thunderduck
FaithfulReader, Amen. A good read is "We Band of Angels" (author unknown) about the nurses who were forced on the Bataan Death March in WWII...
zoezepplin97
NeedlessCoin5, so your point is what?
zoezepplin97
Major Audie Murphy, if you read the text, it never says "won".
Player #29306140
FaithfulReader, it realize their own potential
LoverNotAFighter
You Go Girl 💪
Player evo
Major Audie Murphy, it's awarded.
Player Tucker
Player #15051914, thank you!!!
Player #2823109
She is buried in my home town of Oswego NY
SoutheastFlora6
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Player #9113963
Major Audie Murphy, thank you!!
Player #5099592
wyndyrahne, just informing comparing the stimatism of how women were treated also almost not of a class race or same less valued. ok?