Images Used (From left): (1) MSG Roy P. Benavidez awarded Medal of Honor for his outstanding services in Vietnam (2) President Harry S. Truman presents the Medal of Honor to First Sergeant Leonard Alfred Funk Jr., the US paratrooper who took out 40 Nazis in 60 seconds (3) US Army Medal of Honor The Medal of Honor, the highest military honor awarded by the United States, was created in 1861 during the American Civil War. So far 3,469 Medals of Honor have been awarded since the creation of the decoration and almost half of them were awarded for the actions carried out during the four years of the Civil War. The US soldiers, marines, airmen, sailors and coast guards have been awarded by the US president for personal acts of gallantry above and beyond the call of duty while fighting an enemy of the United States. More than half of the Medals of Honor have been awarded posthumously since 1941 due to the nature of the criteria of the medal. Listverse, the popular web blog, reported on 10 outstanding actions to earn a Medal of Honor. (10) LCmdr. Ernest E. Evans (August 13, 1908 – October 25, 1944), WWII: Lieutenant Commander Ernest Edwin Evans was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for his stunning heroism while leading the Fletcher class destroyer USS Johnston straight into a Japanese fleet that outnumbered theirs on October 25, 1944 in the Battle of Leyte Gulf off Samar Island in the Philippines Sea. Evans was born in
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