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Her Medal of Honor was once revoked. Now her base is being renamed.

Summary by Military Times
In 1917, an Army review board rescinded the Medal of Honor that had been awarded to Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, an Army surgeon and former prisoner of war, more than half a century earlier. Walker refused to send the medal back, wearing it proudly for the remaining two years of her life. So her family has a sense of how she’d respond to President Donald Trump’s June 10 announcement that nine Army bases renamed in 2023 — including one honoring her —…

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Military Times broke the news in Vienna, United States on Friday, June 20, 2025.
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