Honors
Maury received 16 battle stars and the Presidential Unit Citation for World War II service, placing her among the highest decorated US ships of the Second World War.
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Famous quotes containing the word honors:
“Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“The sire then shook the honors of his head,
And from his brows damps of oblivion shed
Full on the filial dullness:”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)