The President of the United States of America takes pride in presenting the Navy Distinguished Service Medal (Posthumously) to Pharmacist’s Mate Third Class Joshua B. McCrisaken, United States Navy, for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished service while seriously ill with influenza on board the U.S.S. MARIETTA in October 1918. Pharmacist’s Mate Third Class McCrisaken refused to give up and continued to care for the sick until he himself died on 14 October 1918.