WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor to three new recipients, including one posthumously, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on June 18.
“The first hero we pay tribute to today is one of the finest warriors to ever wear the uniform of the United States,” Trump said while introducing retired U.S. Marine James Capers Jr., the first black Marine to receive a battlefield commission while fighting a war.
Serving as then-Second Lt. With the 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, Capers led a nine-member patrol that dominated enemy positions over the course of four days while facing a numerically superior opposition. …