SCONRES 103
100th Congress
Senate
International Affairs
Afghanistan
Americans in foreign countries
Awards, medals, prizes
Commemorations
Foreign correspondents
A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the President should award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Charles E. Thornton, Lee Shapiro, and Jim Lindelof, citizens of the United States who were killed in Afghanistan.
Introduced: March 14, 1988
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Mar 14, 1988
Referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Mar 14, 1988
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Declares that the President should: (1) posthumously award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Charles E. Thornton, Lee Shapiro, and Jim Lindelof in honor of their efforts to document the Afghan struggle for freedom; and (2) present the award to those individuals' families on March 21, 1988, the start of the new year in Afghanistan.
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Referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
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