"The Medal of Honor has been awarded to many who rose to prominence after they got home. Douglas MacArthur (and his father, Arthur), Audie Murphy, Eddie Rickenbacker, Alvin York, Bob Kerrey, James Stockdale, and Daniel Inouye are a few. But the overwhelming majority simply went on with their lives, or tried to. This book concentrates on them. Some stayed in the military; some rose to prominence as public servants; some lived in a state of constant financial trouble. But all of them lived lives that would be forgotten except for the efforts of relatives and, in some cases, a few dedicated historians."
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Allen Mikaelen, Medal of Honor: Profiles of America's Military Heroes From the Civil War to the Present (2003), New York: Hyperion, first edition hardcover, p. xxvii
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