Congressional Medal of Honor recipients ring stock market bell
Medal of Honor recipient Hershey Miyamura, center, is photographed inside the New York Stock Exchange during a ceremony in which 30 Medal of Honor recipients ring the closing bell in New York, NY on March 22nd, 2011. Ramsay de Give for The Gallup Independent

By Gaye Brown de Alvarez
Staff writer

NEW YORK — Gallup’s own hero, Hiroshi “Hershey” Miyamura was one of 30 World War II and Korean War Congressional Medal of Honor recipients who rang the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday evening.

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