Fox Information host Martha MacCallum was honored Thursday at The Patriot Awards Gala because the recipient of its Excellence in Journalism award for her distinguished profession overlaying the navy.
MacCallum obtained the John R. “Tex” Cray Award for Excellence in Journalism for her work overlaying navy tales, on the gala emceed by actor Gary Sinise. The ceremony honored people who promote the core American rules of braveness, dedication, integrity, sacrifice, citizenship and patriotism.
In accepting the award, MacCallum thanked attendees and the man award recipients, in addition to the nation’s most interesting.
“It has been one of many highest honors of my life to get to know these heroes, these women and men of valor and to inform their story, and the chance I’ve been given at Fox,” she stated. “I’m grateful additionally to my CEO Suzanne Scott and Fox Information president Jay Wallace for saying sure once I got here to them with these tales and requested for these assignments and for committing the sources that it took in the direction of the purpose of by no means forgetting the women and men who’ve fought and given a lot for our freedom.”
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Fox Information host Martha MacCallum was honored at The Patriot Awards Gala for her work overlaying the navy. (2024 Congressional Medal of Honor Conference Host Committee)
MacCallum, who joined Fox Information Channel in 2004, hosts “The Story” on weekdays and likewise leads the community’s particular election and political protection. She’s the writer of the New York Instances bestseller, “Unknown Valor: A Story of Household, Braveness, and Sacrifice from Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima.”Â
In keeping with her biography web page, her cousin Harry Grey, a Marine who died on the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945, helped propel her curiosity in navy veterans’ tales. On the eightieth anniversary of D-Day this 12 months on June 6, 2024, she interviewed World Warfare II veterans and U.S. Senators in a broadcast from the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial.
The Congressional Medal of Honor Society’s membership solely contains those that have been given the Medal of Honor, the very best American navy ornament for individuals who have carried out extraordinary acts of valor. The society was chartered by Congress in 1958 and seeks to protect their tales and share their values by way of numerous initiatives and the Medal of Honor museum, based on its web site.
The Gene and Jerry Jones household obtained the Patriot Award on the occasion for his or her lifetime work “devoted to freedom and the beliefs represented by the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.”
Fox Information host Martha MacCallum was honored at The Patriot Awards Gala for her work overlaying the navy. (2024 Congressional Medal of Honor Conference Host Committee)
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Actor Taylor Kitsch, who performed Lt. Michael Murphy within the movie “Lone Survivor,” was honored with the Bob Hope Award for Excellence in Leisure for his in depth assist of the navy, and Navy veteran Richard M. “Tres” Kleberg III obtained the Distinguished Citizen Award.
