The Meritorious Service Medal is a senior level decoration presented to denote acts of meritorious service to a country that are worthy of recognition. The following is a list of meritorious service medals issued by various countries:
- Meritorious Service Medal (Canada), one of two Meritorious Service Decorations in Canada
- Meritorious Service Medal (China), second highest military decoration within the People's Liberation Army
- Meritorious Service Medal (United Kingdom)
- Meritorious Service Medal (United States)
- Meritorious Service Medal (Vietnam)
- NATO Meritorious Service Medal
- Pingat Jasa Gemilang (Meritorious Services Medal) from Singapore, awarded to civilians
- Pingat Jasa Gemilang (Tentera) (Meritorious Services Medal (Military)) from Singapore
Famous quotes containing the words meritorious and/or service:
“Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self- service populace, and all our specious comforts—the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria—are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.”
—Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)