Of the 3,446 Medal of Honor awards, 267, 8.5%, were awarded to men born in Ireland. That's more than half of all awards to non-native recipients. Irish Americans won 2,018 of the remaining awards, twice as many as any other ethnic group. And that means nearly two thirds of all awards were to people of Irish ancestry. Not bad for people who first came to this country as slaves.
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