Definitions for "Medal of Honor"
The highest American military award for battlefield bravery.
the highest U.S. military decoration awarded for bravery and valor in action `above and beyond the call of duty'
The U.S. Army's highest honor awarded by the President in the name of Congress, for conspicuous intrepidity at the risk of life, above and beyond the call of duty, in action involving actual conflict with an opposing armed force.