![]() On November 11, Veterans Day, at an 11 a.m. They are among the 10 Harvard men awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity” at the risk of their own lives “above and beyond the call of duty.” Recent research suggests that no other college or university, apart from West Point and Annapolis (with 82 and 74 recipients), can claim more alumni so honored. Sherrod Skinner ’51 threw himself on a North Korean grenade to save wounded marines under his command. ’84, volunteered to carry dispatches through Apache territory, traveling 70 miles in one night and walking 30 more the next day. Hazard Stevens, of the class of 1865, led the assault that captured a Confederate fort.
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