““Over the course of his wartime service, Lawrence was awarded a number of medals and ribbons, but with his profound disdain for such things, he either threw them away or never bothered to collect them. He made an exception in the case of the Croix de Guerre; after the war, according to his brother, he found amusement in placing the medal around the neck of a friend’s dog and parading it through the streets of Oxford.””
![“His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to seek death on battlefields.” quote by William Manchester](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e01/william-manchester-18393_american-history_his-gen-douglas-macarthurs-twenty-two-me_2935806.jpg)
