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DECORATIONS AND AWARDS

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Legion of Merit: award

Medal for Merit: award

Right to wear badges of military societies

Cash awards for disclosures, suggestions, inventions, and scientific achievements

Recognition for accomplishments: award of trophies

Gold star lapel button: eligibility and distribution

Precedence of the award of the Purple Heart

Prisoner-of-war medal: issue

Purple Heart: members killed or wounded in action by friendly fire

Purple Heart: members killed or wounded in attacks by foreign terrorist organizations

Consideration of proposals for decorations not previously submitted in timely fashion: procedures for review

Purple Heart: limitation to members of the armed forces

Presentation of decorations: prohibition on entering correctional facilities for presentation to prisoners convicted of serious violent felonies

Bronze Star: limitation on persons eligible to receive

Medal of honor: award to individual interred in Tomb of the Unknowns as representative of casualties of a war

Medal of honor: Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard Medal of Honor Roll

Replacement of military decorations

Honorable service requirement for award of military decorations