Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum was honored with the Congressional Medal of Honor on Thursday night. She was honored with the “Tex” McCray Award for Excellence in Journalism.
The Patriot Awards ceremony – held Thursday in San Antonio – honors individuals who, through their life’s work, advance and perpetuate the principles on which the United States of America was founded and encourage the six core values of courage, commitment, integrity, sacrifice, citizenship and patriotism. . The Tex McCrary Award honors journalists who have distinguished themselves through unbiased coverage of the U.S. military.
Martha MacCallum is the author of Courage Unknown: A Story of Family, Courage, and Sacrifice from Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima, a New York Times bestseller. The Fox News host also anchored the network’s special coverage from Normandy on June 6 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day earlier this year.
During her acceptance speech, she expressed her gratitude for being able to tell the stories of U.S. military veterans.
“Thank you to the Congressional Medal of Honor Society and these recipients,” she said. “Our nation owes you our deepest gratitude for your courage, your humanity, and the sacrifices you have all made. I am humbled to be in this room with you tonight and I am grateful for the time I spent with General Pat Brady earlier today, an extraordinary man. So I thank him for his time.” Previous today.
“It has been one of the highest honors of my life to get to know these heroes, these brave men and women and to tell their story, and the opportunity I have had at Fox. I am also grateful to my CEO Susan Scott and Fox News President Jay Wallace for saying yes when I came to them with these stories and asked These missions and the allocation of resources it took to achieve the goal of never forgetting the men and women who fought and gave so much for our freedom.”
