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Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work posthumously inducts Medal of Honor recipient Union Army 1st Lt Alonzo Cushing into the Hall of Heroes at the Pentagon, Nov. 7, 2014. Cushing helped stop Confederate Army Maj. Gen. George E. Pickett's charge at Gettysburg, Pa., on July 3, 1863.

Work Inducts Union Army Soldier into Hall of Heroes

Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work posthumously inducts Medal of Honor recipient Union Army 1st Lt Alonzo Cushing into the Hall of Heroes at the Pentagon, Nov. 7, 2014. Cushing helped stop Confederate Army Maj. Gen. George E. Pickett's charge at Gettysburg, Pa., on July 3, 1863.

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