30 May 2012
obama gets it right.
coach summit received the medal of freedom from the potus.
"The Medal of Freedom is presented to people who have made meritorious contributions to the national interests of the United States, to world peace or to other significant endeavors."
this year's other honorees included:
• Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, the first woman to hold the job.
• Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts, who died in 1927.
• John Doar, who handled civil rights cases as assistant attorney general in the 1960s.
• William Foege, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who helped lead the effort to eradicate smallpox.
• Jan Karski, a resistance fighter against the Nazi occupation of Poland during World War II. He died in 2000.
good company. go vols. more
Labels:
awards,
barack obama,
lady vols,
madeleine albright,
pat summitt,
you deserve this
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