President Barack Obama today bestows the Medal of Honor on two dozen Army veterans. The ceremony concludes a 12-year multi-agency investigation of discrimination in the Pentagon's awards process. The veterans are Jewish, latino and black. They received the Distinguished Service Cross, the nation's second-highest military award for their actions in World War II, Korea and Vietnam. But they were denied the top honor because of their race or ethnicity. Just three are still alive and will be at the White House today.
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