|
2007 |
H.C. "Barney" Barnum, Jr., Deputy
Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Reserve Affairs and a recipient of
the Medal of Honor |
|
2006 |
Lieutenant
General Harold. G. Moore, U.S. Army (Retired) |
|
2005 |
Colonel Leo K. Thorsness |
|
2004 |
Major General Donald R. Gardner, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired) |
|
2003 |
Major Bert Bank |
| 2002 |
Lieutenant General Robert F. Foley, U.S. Army (Retired) |
| 2001 |
Major General J. Gary Cooper, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired) |
| 2000 |
General Carl E. Mundy, Jr., Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps |
| 1999 |
General Dennis J. Reimer |
| 1998 |
General George A. Joulwan |
| 1997 |
Colonel Ola Lee Mize |
| 1996 |
General Raymond G. Davis |
| 1995 |
Colonel William R. Lawley, Jr., Rear Admiral Eugene B.
Fluckey, Master Sergeant Henry E. Erwin, Captain Maurice Britt, Captain
Jack Lucas |
| 1994 |
Lieutenant General John J. Yeosock |
| 1993 |
Major General Mary E. Clarke, Rear Admiral Fran McKee |
| 1992 |
General Charles Horner, Commander, U.S. Space Command |
| 1991 |
Senator Daniel Inouye |
| 1990 |
General William J. Livsey, Commander, Eighth Army |
| 1989 |
Senator Howell Heflin |
| 1988 |
Senator Sam Nunn |
| 1987 |
Vernon A. Walters, Ambassador to the United Nations |
| 1986 |
Senator Barry M. Goldwater |
| 1985 |
General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. |
| 1984 |
Congressman G.V. "Sonny" Montgomery |
| 1983 |
Brigadier General Joseph J. Foss |
| 1982 |
Admiral Hyman G. Rickover |
| 1981 |
Captain Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. |
| 1980 |
General Louis Wilson, Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps |
| 1979 |
Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, Chief of Naval Operations |
| 1978 |
Brigadier General Paul W. Tibbits, Jr. |
| 1977 |
General William C. Westmoreland, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army |
| 1976 |
Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong |
| 1975 |
General Lewis B. Hershey, Director Selective Service System |
| 1974 |
Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| 1973 |
Charles A. Lindberg |
| 1972 |
Brigadler General James Stewart |
| 1971 |
Lieutenant General James Doolittle |
| 1970 |
General Omar N. Bradley, General of the Army |
| 1969 |
Colonel Roscoe Turner |
| 1968 |
General Lauris Norstad, NATO Commander |
| 1967 |
Donald M. Kendall, CEO, Pepsi-Cola Company |
| 1966 |
General Paul D. Adams, Strike Commander |
| 1965 |
General David Sarnoff, Chairman of the Board, RCA |
| 1964 |
General J. Lawton Collins |
| 1963 |
General Mathew B. Ridgeway |
| 1962 |
John S. Gleason, National Administrator of Veterans Affairs |
| 1961 |
General James A. Van Fleet |
| 1960 |
Sumner G. Whittier, Chief of the Veterans Administration |
| 1959 |
General Alfred M. Gruenther, President of the American Red
Cross |
| 1958 |
Governor Ernest Vandiver of Georgia, Governor E.F. Hollings
of South Carolina and Governor John Patterson of Alabama |
| 1957 |
General Lucius D. Clay, Chairman of the Board, Continental
Can Company |
| 1956 |
General Mark Clark, President of the Citadel |
| 1955 |
Harvey V. Higley, National Administrator of Veterans
Affairs |
| 1954 |
Congressman Edward H. Rees |
