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Officer John Smith, 2019 Awardee

Category: imPULSE Issue 56

Carnegie Medal Presentation to Carnegie Hero Michael Eugene Chestnut

Carnegie Hero Michael Eugene Chestnut

Posted on January 16, 2019 by Jewels Phraner

Carnegie Hero Michael Eugene Chestnut, left, receiving the Carnegie Medal from Bracken County (Ky.) Judge-Executive Earl Bush at the county’s board meeting on Nov. 28 at the Old Courthouse in …

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Carnegie Medal Presentation to Carnegie Hero James Williams

Carnegie Hero James Williams

Posted on January 16, 2019 by Jewels Phraner

Carnegie Hero James Williams, center, received the Carnegie Medal from Green Bay (Wis.) Mayor James J. Schmitt during a council meeting on Oct. 16. Williams told Schmitt that it “still …

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Carnegie Medal Presentation to Carnegie Hero Michael E. Surrell, Sr.

Carnegie Hero Michael E. Surrell, Sr.

Posted on January 16, 2019 by Jewels Phraner

Carnegie Hero Michael E. Surrell, Sr., left, was presented the Carnegie Medal by Commission President Eric P. Zahren at a private ceremony held Oct, 17 at Union & Finch Restaurant …

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The Quotable A.C.: Impulse 56

quoteable

Posted on January 16, 2019 by Jewels Phraner

Some critics thot[sic] I proposed to stimulate heroism, but now nothing I’ve done is so popular. It was time the Heroes of Peace had recognition. — From a private letter …

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Carnegie Hero featured in popular Boy Scouts comic series ‘Scouters in Action’

Scouters in Action

Posted on January 16, 2019 by Jewels Phraner

Turner Lagpacan said he was grateful for his near-decade of involvement in the Boy Scouts when in April 2015, he encountered a fiery highway crash in Mulhall, Okla. Lagpacan, who …

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