Media Advisory: Cutter Munro to receive Medal of Honor to honor namesake, Coast Guard Wednesday

KODIAK, Alaska – Members of the Coast Guard, TriWest Healthcare Alliance and the Congressional Medal of Honor Society will pay tribute to the Coast Guard’s only Medal of Honor recipient, the late Signalman 1st Class Douglas Munro, during a ceremony at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday aboard the cutter Munro at the Coast Guard base in Kodiak.

A statue of Munro, provided by TriWest Healthcare Alliance, will be unveiled and a replica of Munro’s Medal of Honor will be presented by Medal of Honor recipient retired Army Maj. Drew Dennis Dix of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society following a visit by the dignitaries to Air Station Kodiak before the ceremony. The group visited District Seventeen in the Juneau federal building and Station Juneau today.

Media interested in attending the event, receiving imagery of the event or biographies of the attendees should contact Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Francis at (907) 487-5700, sara.g.francis@uscg.mil.

For more information about Douglas Munro please visit: http://www.uscg.mil/history/people/MunroDouglasIndex.asp

For more information about the Coast Guard Cutter Munro please visit: http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/cgcmunro/

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