CROW TRIBAL ELDER DOCTOR JOE MEDICINE CROW IS SCHEDULED TO BE GIVEN A HUGE HONOR TODAY.
AT A CEREMONY IN WASHINGTON, D.C., PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA WILL GIVE MEDICINE CROW THE PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM.
THE 95-YEAR-OLD MEDICINE CROW IS A CROW WAR CHIEF WHO EARNED A BRONZE STAR AND THE FRENCH LEGION OF HONOR FOR HIS SERVICE IN WORLD WAR TWO.
HE WAS NOMINATED FOR THE MEDAL BY MONTANA SENATOR JON TESTER AND RETIRED WYOMING SENATOR ALAN SIMPSON, AND THE NOMINATION WAS SUPPORTED BY LETTERS FROM SENATOR MAX BAUCUS, GOVERNOR BRIAN SCHWEITZER, FORMER COLORADO SENATOR BEN NIGHTHORSE CAMPBELL, AND FILMMAKER KEN BURNS, WHO INTERVIEWED MEDICINE CROW FOR HIS ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARY ABOUT WORLD WAR TWO.
MEDICINE CROW WILL BE ONE OF 16 PEOPLE WHO WILL BE AWARDED THE MEDAL OF FREEDOM TODAY. THAT LIST INCLUDES SUCH LUMINARIES AS PHYSICIST STEPHEN HAWKING, FORMER SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR, TENNIS PRO BILLIE JEAN KING, AND ACTOR SIDNEY POITIER.
MEDICINE CROW WILL BECOME ONLY THE SECOND MONTANAN WITH THE MEDAL OF FREEDOM. THE OTHER IS THE LATE ACTRESS AND COMEDIAN MARTHA RAYE, WHO WAS BORN IN BUTTE.
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