While suffering from a grenade wound, Corporal Duane Dewey selflessly covered another exploding grenade with his body to protect a Navy corpsman and his fellow Marines. Join us in thanking him for his relentless bravery in the Korean War! US Marines | Congressional Medal of Honor Society

Final Honors Marines, family, and friends pay their final respects to Medal of Honor recipient Cpl. Duane E. Dewey, and his late spouse at a funeral service and ceremony in Florida, Nov. 16, 2021. Dewey, a U.S. Marine Corps Reservist, earned our nation's highest military award for valor while deployed near Panmunjom, Korea with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division in April of 1952. He covered a grenade with his own body, saving his fellow Marines and U.S. Navy Corpsmen duri