Lawmakers Push To Award U.S. Marine Posthumous Medal of Honor

Lawmakers Seek Medal Of Honor For San Diego Marine -- L.A. Times

A bipartisan group of California legislators has asked the secretary of the Navy to reconsider a request from the Marine Corps that the Medal of Honor be awarded posthumously to a Marine from San Diego killed in Iraq.

The group says newly discovered video and a report from a noted-pathologist merit a review of the decision by then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates not to recommend that the Medal of Honor be awarded to Sgt. Rafael Peralta.

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