COMMENTS. 1  Research Basis. 2  Strategy in Practice. 3  Grades 8 â 11 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson. 4  Grades 9 â 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson. 5  Grades 9 â 12 | Lesson Plan | Unit. 6  Grades 9 â 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson. 7  Grades 6 â 8 | Lesson Plan | Unit. 8  Grades 11 â 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson.
President Barack Obama awarded 123 Medals, the most ever, followed by President Ronald Reagan with 102 Medal recipients. Two people, Ellsworth Bunker and Colin Powell, are two-time recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
President Obama will award the Medal of Honor posthumously to Henry Johnson, an African-American soldier whose combat bravery occurred during World War I, but whose actions were ignored for decades. RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: President Obama today awards the Medal of Honor-this nation's highest award for bravery-posthumously to an African-American soldier who fought in World War I. Pvt. Henry Johnson fought off a German raid near France's Argonne Forest and saved a fellow-American soldier.