Military Decorations and Awards
Among Major Bottcher's military decorations are the following:
| Distinguished Service Cross with oak leaf cluster | Silver Star | Legion of Merit | Purple Heart with 3 oak leaf clusters |
| Presidential Unit Citation | Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with two bronze service stars | World War II Victory Medal | Philippine Liberation Medal |
Badges:
- Combat Infantryman Badge
Foreign decorations
- Spanish Civil War Medal of the International Brigades
- Spanish Medal of Valour
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Famous quotes containing the words military and/or decorations:
“Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military conscripts of Napoleon the Great? Or the frozen peasants of the Russian Czar? No—we are the free born sons of America; the citizens of the only republic now existing in the world; and the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which they dare call their own.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“Let the realist not mind appearances. Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life. The virtues are economists, but some of the vices are also. Thus, next to humility, I have noticed that pride is a pretty good husband. A good pride is, as I reckon it, worth from five hundred to fifteen hundred a year.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)