Posthumous
- Dag Hammarskjöld Medal – To military personnel, police, or civilians who lose their lives while serving in a United Nations peacekeeping operation (United Nations)
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Famous quotes containing the word posthumous:
“Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor. It does not often caress the great, but the children of the great: it is a hall of the Past.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.”
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)