Presidential Medal of Freedom 2015!

[marylander1940]

Filmmaker Steven Spielberg, composer Stephen Sondheim, violinist and conductor Itzhak Perlman and baseball great Willie Mays are among a number of notables who will be presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama on Tuesday.

 

Singer and actress Barbra Streisand, NASA mathematician Katherine G. Johnson, Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski will also receive the award.

 

Maybe it's a good time for a former Senator from Md to get out of the closet... (that was added by me)

 

New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra, who died in September at the age of 90, will be awarded the medal posthumously.

 

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/obama-honoring-spielberg-streisand-more-medal-freedom-n469106

 

"... It may also be awarded posthumously; examples (in chronological order) include John F. Kennedy, Pope John XXIII, Lyndon Johnson, Paul "Bear" Bryant, Thurgood Marshall, Cesar Chavez, Roberto Clemente, Jack Kemp, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner. (Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner, civil rights workers murdered in 1964, were awarded their medals in 2014, 50 years later)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom

 

 

http://gsuniv.org/history/files/2012/11/JGL_MOF_300dpi1.jpg

 

http://www.bet.com/content/dam/betcom/images/2012/05/National-05-16-05-31/052512-national-presidential-medal-freedom-sidney-poitier.jpg.custom1200x675x20.dimg

 

[+ dutchmuch]

With all due respect Marylander, what is the point of your starting this particular thread?

Most of us here do follow the news...