deltafoxtrot: inothernews: FOREBEAR, AND LEGACY President Barack Obama presents the Medal of Freedom to Chief Joseph Medicine Crow during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. Obama presented the medal, the highest civilian honor in the United States, to 16 recipients during the ceremony. Medicine Crow, 95, became the first of his tribe to receive a master’s degree, in anthropology. He is the oldest member of the Crow and the tribe’s sole surviving war chief – an honor bestowed for a series of accomplishments during World War II.  (Photo: Chip Somodevilla / Getty via the Chicago Tribune)

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