Nearly 150 years after his heroic actions at Gettysburg, Alonzo H. Cushing is close to receiving the Medal of Honor. A defense bill recently approved by the U.S. House of Representatives contains a little-noticed provision that would waive the time limit for posthumously awarding the nation's highest military honor, allowing the medal to be bestowed on the 22-year-old Union artillery lieutenant who died during Pickett's Charge on July 3, 1863. Previously, recommendations for the Medal of Honor had to be made within three years of the action, although Congress can waive that requirement.
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机译：在葛底斯堡的英勇行动后近150年，阿隆佐·H·库兴（Alonzo H. Cushing）即将获得荣誉勋章。美国众议院最近通过的一项国防法案包含了一个鲜为人知的条款，该条款将免除追授该国最高军事荣誉的期限，从而将奖章授予22岁的联盟大炮中尉1863年7月3日，在皮克特（Pickett）的指控中。以前，荣誉勋章的建议必须在行动后的三年内提出，尽管国会可以放弃这一要求。
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