1/ Harvard Kennedy School 2026 graduates include a Medal of Honor recipient: Patrick Payne.
2/ Harvard Commencement is always a festival of distinctions. For me, today’s awarding of a degree to a Kennedy School graduate who has the rare distinction of having received a Medal of Honor is a first.
3/ Harvard is proud to have had more graduates who received Medals of Honor than any educational institution other than West Point and the Naval Academy.
4/ In awarding then Sergeant Major Patrick Payne the Medal of Honor at a White House ceremony on September 11, 2020, President Trump said: “Pat has said that as soon as our soldiers’ boots hit the ground, they are ambassadors of the American way of life. Everywhere they go, the men and women of our armed forces instill our friends with hope, our enemies with dread and our fellow citizens with unyielding American pride.”
5/ Patrick’s Medal was awarded for his part in one of the most amazing hostage rescue missions in US military history that freed 75 ISIS hostages who were about to be executed. For more on the story, read here. army.mil/medalofhonor/p…
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