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US: Donald Trump signs act to honour over 3,500 Medal of Honor recipients with DC monument
Updated On: 12 September, 2026 09:28 AM IST | Washington | Agencies
Signed at Texas’s National Medal of Honor Museum, the bill honors over 3500 recipients of the nation’s highest military decoration
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US President Donald Trump at the 25th anniversary event of the 9/11 terror attacks. PIC/AFP
US President Donald Trump signed the Hershel “Woody” Williams Act to authorise a privately funded National Medal of Honor monument in Washington DC, near the Lincoln Memorial.
Signed at Texas’s National Medal of Honor Museum, the bill honors over 3500 recipients of the nation’s highest military decoration. It is named after Williams, WWII’s last surviving Medal of Honor recipient.


