WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor to three new recipients, including one posthumously, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on June 18. “As we approach the 250th anniversary of our founding, we remember that we owe everything to heroes like those we celebrate today—men who went willingly to the darkest and most dangerous corners on earth to defeat evil so we could live free,” Trump said. Family and friends of honorees sat in the first rows as the president presented the awards. “The first hero we pay tribute to today is one of the finest warriors to ever wear the uniform of the United States,” Trump said while introducing retired U.S. Marine James Capers Jr., the first black Marine to receive a battlefield commission while fighting a war. ...