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I find this a little troubling. This is our nation's highest honor. To hand one out, this long after the fact, could begin to smell of politics.
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I don't.
Remember - times change and at the time of LT Cushing's actions, the MOH was the only award given for any such valorous act. The several awards we have today to recognize a multitude of levels of such bravery did not come into being until WW1 and later.
"Cushing is the most famous lieutenant killed during the entire Civil War, and few who stop at Gettysburg fail to hear of the boy who died behind the wheel of his last gun as Pickett's Virginians surged by." -- Blue & Gray Magazine
It seems to me as if LT Alonzo Hereford Cushing's bravery rightfully deserves such recognition..then or today.
And so it goes... 
Richard's $.02 
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