This administration will bestow the award, but the wheels were set in motion back in 2000-2001 ...and now you know the rest of the story.
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“A Florida congressman believes the uncle for whom rock singer Lenny Kravitz was named deserved to be awarded a posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor for heroism during the Korean War, but instead received a lesser medal because of anti-Semitism in the U.S. military.
Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Fla., has been gathering support for a bill he has titled the "Leonard Kravitz Jewish War Veterans Act of 2001." Introduced with the bipartisan support of Reps. Benjamin Gilman (R N.Y.), Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.), the measure recently gained the support of two Jewish members of Congress from San Diego, Susan Davis and Bob Filner.
Wexler's bill, H. R. 606, follows a precedent established in 1996, when Congress directed the military to review the exploits of Asian-American military heroes who might have been unfairly denied Congressional Medals of Honor. That legislation resulted in 21 Asian-Americans being granted the nation's highest military award. In 1997 similar legislation affecting African-American veterans led to the awarding of seven more Medals of Honor.”
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http://www.jewishsightseeing.com/usa...ravitz_act.htm
The “Leonard Kravitz Jewish War Veterans Act of 2001”, H.R. 606, was introduced February 13, 2001 by Rep. Wexler (D-FL) and co-sponsored by Reps. Gilman (R-NY), Crowley (D-NY), and Cantor (R-VA).
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:H.R.606.IH:
It was signed into law December 28, 2001 as part of the 2002 NDAA; see page 105, Section 552.
http://www.dod.gov/dodgc/olc/docs/2002NDAA.pdf