In this video produced by the 13th Coast Guard District External Affairs Office, imagery is shown from the 80th Douglas A. Munro Memorial ceremony in tribute to the U.S. Coast Guard's lone recipient of the Medal of Honor at the Laurel Hill Memorial Cemetery in Cle Elum, Washington, Sept. 27, 2022. Munro died Sept. 27, 1942, after placing his Higgins boat as a shield for 500 Marines beleaguered by enemy gunfire on the beaches of Point Cruz, Guadalcanal. (U.S. Coast Guard video by Chief Petty Officer William Colclough)
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