Lawmaker Pushes for Medal to Recognize Cold War Veterans

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If I'm gone...please send it to my wife.

Mar 27 2017
BANGOR, Maine -- Lawmakers from Maine long have fought to get a medal created for those who served in the military during the Cold War, a time of high political tension between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union that started after World War II and ended when the Iron Curtain fell in 1991.
"They were instrumental in defending our country during a dangerous period of constant threats," Democratic U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, who is the latest to pick up the Cold War medal effort, said in a news release. "Their service involved many kinds of sacrifices, and I think it's time we recognize those veterans for it."
Pingree; U.S. Rep. David Young, R-Iowa; and five other representatives earlier this month reintroduced the Cold War Service Medal Act, which would create a Department of Defense sanctioned medal for those who served in the military between September 1945 and Dec. 26, 1991, when the Soviet Union dissolved. The bill has been referred to the House Armed Services Committee.
Former Defense Secretary William Cohen, who represented Maine in the U.S. Senate from 1979 to 1997, was tasked with creating the Cold War Recognition Certificate in 1999, but repeated efforts by Congress to create a Cold War Service Medal -- often led or supported by Maine senators and representatives -- have failed.

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/03/27/lawmaker-pushes-medal-recognize-veterans-who-served-cold-war.html