Kenneth David, shown here during an MOH ceremony Jan. 3, and Kenneth Kays were awarded Medals of Honor for their actions at the battle of Firebase Maureen during the Vietnam War. (Henry Villarama ...
The Vietnam War was highly controversial ... “I didn’t get my Vietnam service medals or my good conduct medal because they kept saying I didn’t qualify and I’d print out where it says ...
John Levitow, shown here in 1996, was the first enlisted airman to receive the Medal of Honor, earning the award for his actions during the Vietnam War. (National Archives) The Vietnam War was ...
Medals of Honor, the nation’s highest award ... Their names are now on the same panel of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C., he said. Private Bruno Orig, from Honolulu, Hawaii, saw ...
Lassen is one of only 3,526 Medal of Honor recipients, and one of just three Navy pilots to receive the decoration during the Vietnam War. He is the 32nd Medal of Honor recipient with a plaque on ...
Another U.S. soldier from Los Angeles, whose government imprisoned him during World War II for being of Japanese descent ... soldiers' acts of valor and self-sacrifice in Korea and Vietnam. Medals of ...