Posthumous Honors and Memorials
The Gearing-class destroyer USS Frank Knox (DD-742), commissioned in December 1944, was named in his honor.
On May 31, 1945 he received posthumously the Medal for Merit from President Harry S. Truman.
It seems probable that his Canadian roots led his widow, Annie Reid Knox in 1948 to endow several fellowships in his name - the Frank Knox Memorial Fellowships - which allow scholars from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom to pursue graduate study at Harvard University or allow recent graduates of Harvard University to travel and research in ex-commonwealth countries.
Read more about this topic: Frank Knox
Famous quotes containing the words posthumous, honors and/or memorials:
“Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor. It does not often caress the great, but the children of the great: it is a hall of the Past.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“There is a moment when god honors falsehood.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“My titillations have no foot-notes
And their memorials are the phrases
Of idiosyncratic music.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)