Showing posts with label Medal of Honor recipients still living. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Medal of Honor recipients still living. Show all posts

Sunday, January 25, 2015

PTSD: Resilient Does Not Mean Impervious

War Icons We Fail To Remember
Wounded Times
Kathie Costos
January 25, 2015

When a veteran looks at a young person enlisting in the military they are torn. They remember their own decision to serve and the pride they had stepping up to put everything they had on the line "up to and including their own life" at the same time they remember what it felt like to awaken to the simple fact they would never, ever be a civilian again.

How do they warn them? How do you tell a teenager fresh out-of high school they will live with this one decision for the rest of their lives? Would they go back in time and do any of it differently?

There are choices in life that define all of us. Terms in the dictionary we hardly ever hear the meaning of while assuming we know it all. When a nation decides to send men and women off to fight wars, we want it all nice and tidy clean. We cheer them as they go and wave flags. We don't want to see what they go through. We don't want to see the horrors they see.

When they return, we want to believe nothing bad happened to them or because of them. We want to believe it all occurred as if Harry Potter gave them all magic wands to cause the enemy to fall. We want the icons.

We want to see the images like George Washington crossing the Delaware Christmas Day 1776 but we don't want to see how the soldiers with him were freezing because they did not have enough supplies or support.
"The freezing and tired Continental Army assembled on the Jersey shore without any major debacles. Once ready, Washington led his army on the road to Trenton. It was there that he secured the Continental Army's first major military victory of the war. Without the determination, resiliency, and leadership exhibited by Washington while crossing the Delaware River the victory at Trenton would not have been possible."
This is the definition of resilient "able to become strong, healthy, or successful again after something bad happens: able to return to an original shape after being pulled, stretched, pressed, bent, etc."

We want the image of raising the flag at Iwo Jima but we don't want to be reminded of what they went through before it or afterwards.
"There are six Flag Raisers on the famous Iwo Jima photo. Four in the front line and two in back. The front four are (left to right) Ira Hayes, Franklin Sousley, John Bradley and Harlon Block. The back two are Michael Strank (behind Sousley) and Rene Gagnon (behind Bradley). Strank, Block and Sousley would die shortly afterwards. Bradley, Hayes and Gagnon became national heroes within weeks."


That is what the military thought they could create in soldiers over seven years ago. Soldiers are not manufactured things with no feelings or emotional bonds to others.

Somehow they got the notion that they were no longer humans filled with all the complexities of what makes military folks able to do what they do at all. They are brave. It takes bravery to be face off with an opposing force wanting to kill them and their friends. They were already resilient and proved that simply by getting through military training pushing their bodies and minds past the point of no-return to their civilian youth. They are bonded to their units and pulled from their families just long enough to be sent back to them with the war ingrained on their soul.

If you look up the definition of capacity you'll see what has been happening when they come home. "The ability to hold or contain people or things: the largest amount or number that can be held or contained: the ability to do something : a mental, emotional, or physical ability." For all they do, all they are willing to do in service no one thinks of their capacity to accomplish the task has limits.

The solider trained in this theory believed it meant they were to become Impervious "not capable of being damaged or harmed."

It seems the military had the same misunderstanding of what this research project they bought into would accomplish especially when Generals tried to pin the suicides to what these soldiers lacked when they were afflicted by PTSD and no matter how much training they had, could no longer live with the pain.
"Some of it is just personal make-up. Intestinal fortitude. Mental toughness that ensures that people are able to deal with stressful situations." General Raymond Odierno

That thought must have excluded Medal of Honor icons like Dakota Meyer suffering from his memories so much so he pulled over to the side of the road one day, removed the gun from his glove compartment, put the barrel to his head and pulled the trigger not knowing the bullets had already been removed. Omitted remembering all the other Medal of Honor recipients openly discussing their own struggles.

Today there is another icon capturing the attention of the nation, Chris Kyle, "American Sniper" and subject of the mega hit movie. The bravado statements he made in his book were only part of his story just as what he did after he came home from war for the last time but could not find peace. Even today, after death to him was up close through the scope and personal because he could see the eyes of his target as well as what happened when his bullet ripped flesh and bone some dared call him a coward. Some use his service as a call to hate but most view his suffering as a call to help heal.

When more left the military entering into the civilian world again, Americans were shocked to learn there were 22 of them committing suicide every day but the shock wore off. They didn't understand that these veterans were still only human after all. They didn't want to be reminded of the fact they were sent because Americans wanted them to go as long as they didn't have to subjected to any of the horrors or be held responsible for the aftermath.

They didn't want to know that as shocking as those numbers were, they were only a fraction of what was really happening. Only 7% of the population yet veterans are double the suicide numbers of civilians and the most stunning number is that young veterans survived combat yet their rate of suicide is triple their peer rate.

These veterans were trained to fight in combat but that training prevented them from surviving home.

Seeking help was not an option when they all received the same convoluted message of being trained to "return to an original shape after being pulled, stretched, pressed, bent, etc."

Right now we are faced with a growing number of combat veterans after troops have been removed from Afghanistan and Iraq. These veterans are no longer counted by the military. After washing their hands from the defiling of yet one more generation of warfighters, we were suffering from the delusion of them being cared for and about by those leaders. We search for other reasons when the facts have been slamming us in the face for years.

Parent after parent stands at the grave of a veteran shattered by all that was done to them piled on top of what they had to do. They wonder why it happened then they wonder what they can do to prevent another family from suffering the same deadly end. They get their story into the newspaper and their community becomes aware for a time. Then they go back to reality TV shows. They get the attention of a politician willing to hear their story. They are promised something will be done while what was already done and failed far too many before is never mentioned.

They get a Congressional Bill produced with the same name ingrained on the tombstone and the family goes back home joining the ranks of the other families led to believe fairy tales only to pick up the newspaper years later discovering nothing changed and more died by their own hand.

They blame themselves wondering what they did wrong. Friends blame themselves for not seeing warning signs. Communities show up and hold candlelight memorials when the real memories they should have held were about the promises they heard before.

Older veterans however remember. They remember the time when they came home and no one noticed the burden in their minds. When they stood and fought the government to "bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle." As these veterans watch younger folks join, they remember it all up to and including the fact that just because they come home from war, the war was not left behind.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

More than 50 Medal of Honor Heroes in Honolulu

Medal of Honor recipients pay tribute to WWII aviators
By WILLIAM COLE
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Published: October 3, 2012


More than 50 of 81 living Medal of Honor recipients are in Honolulu for the weeklong 2012 Medal of Honor Convention, an annual get-together of the nation's greatest war heroes.

HONOLULU — Eight Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipients, in town for a convention of the war heroes, paid tribute Tuesday to four World War II aviators who were at one time based at Marine Corps Air Station Ewa and singled out for bravery "above and beyond the call of duty."

The four Marines were killed in action during the war, and streets were named after them at Ewa Field, according to the event's organizers.

The weedy and neglected state of Ewa Field, which was attacked on Dec. 7, 1941, came as a surprise to some of the Medal of Honor recipients who traveled to pay respects to their fallen Marine brethren, who also were awarded the nation's highest military honor.

"We were surprised when we heard about this because the Marines, we're deep, deep in the history of our Corps, and we'd never heard of this air station," said Richard Pittman, 67, who in Vietnam in 1966 went to the aid of fellow Marines who were under heavy fire on a jungle trail.

Pittman grabbed a belt-fed M-60 machine gun and took out two enemy positions before continuing further and facing down as many as 40 enemy fighters, first with his M-60 and then with a pistol and an enemy rifle until the enemy withdrew.

For his bravery, Pittman was awarded the Medal of Honor.
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Sunday, September 9, 2012

81 living recipients of the famed Medal of Honor

Age, health chip away at roster of Medal of Honor recipients
By WILLIAM COLE
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Published: September 9, 2012

America's greatest war heroes are dying.

There are 81 living recipients of the famed Medal of Honor, the military's highest decoration for valor in combat "above and beyond the call of duty."

More than 50 of them will be in Honolulu Oct. 1-6 at the Hale Koa Hotel for the annual Medal of Honor Convention.

Close brushes with death in warfare somehow didn't claim them, but old age, disease and other factors are now taking a toll on their ranks.

At the time of last year's convention in Louisville, Ky., there were 85 living recipients. There were 91 in 2010, 96 in 2009, and 100 in 2008.

Retired Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Allan J. Kellogg Jr., a Kailua resident who smothered a grenade in a Vietnam rice paddy and survived the blast, remembers there were 157 living Medal of Honor awardees in 1982, when the last such convention was held in Hawaii.

"I don't know if you can really say there's a rhyme or reason (for the dwindling numbers) except for, they are veterans who are aging," said Victoria Kueck, director of operations for the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, which was chartered by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1958.

U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter of California, a Marine combat veteran, is among those who have questioned why so few of the medals have been awarded during the nation's recent wars. Hunter last year referred to the award submission process as "onerous and intimidating."

There are no living Medal of Honor recipients from the Iraq War, three from Afghanistan, 54 from Vietnam, 12 from Korea and 12 remaining from World War II, according to the Medal of Honor Society.

U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye is the last Medal of Honor recipient living in the state from the vaunted 100th Infantry Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team of mostly Japanese-American soldiers who fought tenaciously in Italy and France, officials said.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Youngest and Oldest Medal of Honor Heroes come together

This was sent in an email. What a great picture!

Courtesy of Bill Taylor, Gunnery Sergeant of Marines (Retired) in Massachusetts.

WOW! What a photo!




At the Veterans' Day Parade in New York City, the oldest and youngest Medal of Honor recipients posed for this photograph.

Nicolas Oresko was awarded the MOH for cleaning out bunkers full of Nazis during the Battle of the Bulge, and Dakota Meyer was awarded his for rescuing cut off soldiers under heavy attack from Taliban insurgents.

Monday, November 29, 2010

Life-changing responsibility comes with Medal of Honor

Life-changing responsibility comes with MoH
By Michael Hoffman - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Nov 29, 2010 5:26:16 EST
Army Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta’s life has changed forever, said retired Maj. Gen. Patrick Brady. He should know. Like Giunta, Brady also earned the Medal of Honor.

Retired Col. Roger Donlon agrees. He, too, earned the country’s highest military honor. It literally changed his life: Donlon even attributes the medal to helping him find his wife of 42 years.

“When she saw me in that picture in the paper, she told herself that she has to meet this gentleman. That’s what started it, unbeknownst to me,” said Donlon, who met his wife, Norma, after the two happened to sit next to each other on a plane.


Life as a regular soldier in the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team ended for Giunta on Nov. 16, when President Obama draped the Medal of Honor around Giunta’s neck. He earned it for his heroics in a brutal firefight in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley on Oct. 25, 2007.

Entry into the Congressional Medal of Honor Society isn’t always what it might seem, said three living recipients of the medal.

“We always say it’s tougher to wear the medal than to earn it,” said Brady, who earned his in the Vietnam War after piloting a UH-1 Huey and rescuing 51 wounded soldiers surrounded by North Vietnamese soldiers on Jan. 6, 1968.

Peter Lemon, also a living recipient, avoided the attention altogether for 13 years by putting his medal away. “I went about my life as normal, worked, went to college, went into business because I put the award in a shoebox in the closet,” Lemon said.

Lemon earned his medal as he fought off a 400-man assault alongside his 18-man platoon at a fire base in Vietnam’s Tay Ninh province on April 1, 1970. He shunned the award, saying he was only one of 18 and they deserved it, especially three soldiers who died, just as much as he did.

Forty years later he said wearing the Medal of Honor is a responsibility — not a choice — and the responsibility is weighty. “The Medal of Honor as a symbol can sometimes be larger than you are as an individual,” he said.
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Friday, November 19, 2010

MOH Salvatore on Colbert Report

Last night Steven Colbert struggled to interview the first living Medal of Honor hero since the Vietnam War. Giunta struggled to respond to being called a hero as he said he did not fight alone, did not serve alone and that the award belongs to all serving. If you want to know what kind of men and women we have serving today, watch this clip, then come back.


Thursday November 18, 2010
Salvatore Giunta
Salvatore Giunta gives credit to all the unsung heroes who didn't receive a Medal of Honor for bravery in Afghanistan


Salvatore Giunta MOH

Why is it that we never seem to grasp this one simple fact? They do not serve alone but they end up going from an Army of one to being a veteran alone. They are forced to fight a battle the rest of us are supposed to be fighting for them. The battle to heal after combat.

Here is one example of this. I posted this on Veterans Today about a wounded Afghanistan soldier and how he was treated.

Congresswoman Kathy Casto went to Tampa VA after Private First Class Corey Kent had been transferred from Walter Reed to recover closer to home but ended up getting worse then had to fight to be transferred back to Walter Reed.

Staff at Tampa VA learn to not wake up PTSD patients
November 19, 2010 posted by Chaplain Kathie

* They plan to educate their staff on PTSD to ensure they take into account the unique issues facing these patients and adjust their treatment accordingly. They indicated to me that they understand your concern with having a care provider come into his room in the middle of the night and shake his bed as inappropriate for someone suffering from PTSD.
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Tampa VA


"They plan to educate their staff on PTSD" which means what? They have not done this yet? How many years are we into PTSD research? No, not since the troops were sent into Iraq or even Afghanistan, but going all the way back to the 70's when Vietnam veterans came home and fought to make it happen. Educating staff now is about 40 years too late. How could they have ignored something as simple as not waking up combat veterans with physical wounds? A bomb wounded Kent yet staff had to be told that waking him up by shaking his bed was not a good thing to do?

This happens all the time as the troops come home across the country and it is even worse for the National Guards and Reservists coming back home home to their civilian lives. It is almost as if the military says, "Hey, thanks for showing up but now you're on your own."

Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta received the Medal of Honor for saving two lives and being a hero in battle but after listening to him last night, this man will end up saving a lot more because of what he said. He did not do it alone and maybe, just maybe, no one will allow them to come home and end up being a veteran alone.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Life Won’t Be Same for MoH Recipient Staff Sgt. Giunta


Life Won’t Be Same for MoH Recipient Giunta
November 16, 2010
Stars and Stripes|by Leo Shane III

WASHINGTON -- Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta has made no attempt to hide just how uncomfortable he is with the attention and accolades surrounding the Medal of Honor that he’ll formally receive on Tuesday.

“I’m a regular line Soldier, so this is a new world, sitting out here under these lights in the field with these cameras pointed on us, talking with a little, secret earpiece,” he said during a Pentagon press conference in September, shortly after his name and story were made public. “It’s definitely interesting and exciting.”

It was also a preview of a new reality for Giunta, the first living Medal of Honor recipient for actions in the current wars.

Watch it live: The Medal of Honor Ceremony will stream live online this afternoon.

He is no longer a regular line Soldier. He’s the first living active-duty servicemember to be awarded the nation’s highest honor for battlefield heroics since the Vietnam War, a role that automatically sets him apart from his peers.

“The minute that medal goes around your neck, your life changes,” said Doug Sterner, a military historian who runs the Home of Heroes website. “He now has a different role to serve.”

On Tuesday, Giunta will receive the medal at a White House ceremony. He’ll stand on stage before his family, fellow Soldiers and Defense Department leaders as President Obama describes the heroism the 25-year-old displayed on Oct. 25, 2007, when he challenged a pair of Taliban fighters at point-blank range to rescue a wounded comrade who was being dragged away. And then he’ll shake the president’s hand and receive his medal as dozens of photographers and video cameras record every second.

Army officials haven’t said what Giunta’s future responsibilities will entail, or whether he’ll be allowed to deploy again to Afghanistan with the 173rd Airborne Brigade. During his unit’s last rotation, he was kept behind as part of the rear detachment’s support mission.
Sterner said any future combat is unlikely.
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Life Won’t Be Same for MoH Recipient Giunta

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta, Medal of Honor

Medal of Honor to be awarded to living soldier

2nd Afghanistan war MoH announced by White House this week
By Michelle Tan - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Sep 10, 2010 12:25:16 EDT

Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta will be the first living Medal of Honor recipient since the Vietnam War.

On Thursday, President Obama spoke with Giunta, who is assigned to 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, in Vicenza, Italy, to inform him that he will be awarded the nation’s highest valor award, according to the White House.

Giunta, 25, will be honored for his actions during a fierce firefight Oct. 25, 2007, in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley.

According to the White House announcement, when an insurgent force ambush split Giunta’s squad into two groups, he exposed himself to enemy fire to pull a comrade back to cover. Later, while engaging the enemy and attempting to link up with the rest of his squad, Giunta noticed two insurgents carrying away a fellow soldier. He immediately engaged the enemy, killing one and wounding the other, and provided medical aid to his wounded comrade while the rest of his squad caught up and provided security.

His courage and leadership while under extreme enemy fire were integral to his platoon’s ability defeat an enemy ambush and recover a fellow American paratrooper from enemy hands, according to the White House.

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Thursday, December 3, 2009

WWII Vet and Medal of Honor not enough to fly flag his way

Medal of Honor recipient draws support in fight for flagpole
By Bill Mckelway
Published: December 3, 2009
RICHMOND, Va. -- A flood of help is building for an embattled Medal of Honor winner in Henrico County who was ordered this week to remove a flagpole from his yard by his community's homeowners association.

From the halls of Congress to the 90-year-old colonel's old infantry unit, a local law firm and scores of service members, help is making its way to Col. Van T. Barfoot.

"He said he was outraged and wanted to help," Barfoot's daughter said yesterday, speaking of U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner, D-Va., who learned of Barfoot's plight on TimesDispatch.com yesterday.

In a five-paragraph letter that he received Tuesday, Barfoot was ordered to remove the flagpole from his yard in the Sussex Square community in far western Henrico County. The decorated veteran of three wars raises the American flag every morning on the pole, then lowers and folds the flag at dusk in a three-corner military fashion.
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Medal of Honor recipient draws support in fight for flagpole


Stars and stripes
Col. Van T. Barfoot, the 90-year-old Medal of Honor recipient who refuses to remove his flagpole from his property, speaks out on what the flag means to him.

The man had a highway named after him but can't fly a flag his way at this stage of his life. What's it going to hurt? How many other Medal of Honor heroes will they have to deal with after this if they let this one fly his flag anyway he wants?



Col. Van T. Barfoot Memorial Highway Dedication
Host: Central District Transportation Commissioner Dick Hall
Type: Other - Ceremony
Network: Global
Date: Friday, October 9, 2009
Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: The Big Horn Restaurant
Street: Highway 16 East
City/Town: Carthage, MS
Please join us for the Col. Van T. Barfoot Medal of Honor Memorial Highway Dedication Ceremony at the Big Horn Restaurant in Carthage, MS.

We will be honoring an American Hero, Col. Van T. Barfoot (Ret.), and dedicating the section of Hwy 16 from MS 35 to the Neshoba County line.

A dutch treat lunch will follow the ceremony.


MEDAL OF HONOR CITATION:

BARFOOT, VAN T. Rank and organization: Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, 157th Infantry, 45th Infantry Division. Place and date: Near Carano, Italy, 23 May 1944. Entered service at: Carthage, Miss. Birth: Edinburg, Miss. G.O. No.: 79, 4 October 1944.
Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty on 23 May 1944, near Carano, Italy. With his platoon heavily engaged during an assault against forces well entrenched on commanding ground, 2d Lt. Barfoot (then Tech. Sgt.) moved off alone upon the enemy left flank. He crawled to the proximity of 1 machine gun nest and made a direct hit on it with a hand grenade, killing 2 and wounding 3 Germans. He continued along the German defense line to another machine gun emplacement, and with his tommy gun killed 2 and captured 3 soldiers. Members of another enemy machine gun crew then abandoned their position and gave themselves up to Sgt. Barfoot. Leaving the prisoners for his support squad to pick up, he proceeded to mop up positions in the immediate area, capturing more prisoners and bringing his total count to 17. Later that day, after he had reorganized his men and consolidated the newly captured ground, the enemy launched a fierce armored counterattack directly at his platoon positions. Securing a bazooka, Sgt. Barfoot took up an exposed position directly in front of 3 advancing Mark VI tanks. From a distance of 75 yards his first shot destroyed the track of the leading tank, effectively disabling it, while the other 2 changed direction toward the flank. As the crew of the disabled tank dismounted, Sgt. Barfoot killed 3 of them with his tommy gun. He continued onward into enemy terrain and destroyed a recently abandoned German fieldpiece with a demolition charge placed in the breech. While returning to his platoon position, Sgt. Barfoot, though greatly fatigued by his Herculean efforts, assisted 2 of his seriously wounded men 1,700 yards to a position of safety. Sgt. Barfoot’s extraordinary heroism, demonstration of magnificent valor and aggressive determination in the face of pointblank fire are a perpetual inspiration to his fellow soldiers.
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Saturday, May 2, 2009

Two Medal of Honor Heroes from Vietnam visit new generation in Iraq

This is post 6,000 on this blog. Very fitting that it links two of our heroes from Vietnam, both Medal of Honor Recipients paying a visit to our newer generation. Can't think of a better way to celebrate 6,000 posts!


3IBCT Soldiers inspired by visit from heroes
By Staff Sgt. Tim Meyer, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team Public Affairs, 25th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division - North PAO
May 1, 2009 - 6:46:03 PM


Blackanthem Military News

Sgt. 1st Class Justin Walker, battle captain, Headquarters and Headquarters Co., 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, explains procedures in the brigade’s tactical operations center to Medal of Honor recipients retired Col. Robert Howard and retired Command Sgt. Maj. Gary L. Littrell. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Tim Meyer.)



CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE SPEICHER, TIKRIT, Iraq - When the two old men arrived their appearance personified a leadership trait that no one could ignore.

The Vietnam veterans were humbly dressed in civilian clothes, but still had a core of military bearing, despite having been retired for many years.

Each retired Soldier wore around their neck a gold medal attached to a sky blue ribbon adorned with 13 white stars -- an image that speaks volumes and the Army condenses into two words: Personal Courage.

Retired Col. Robert Howard and retired Command Sgt. Maj. Gary L. Littrell both received the Congressional Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry under fire, without regard to their own safety, during the Vietnam War, and are among the lucky few who lived to tell about it.

Thirty six years later the Soldiers of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division were lucky enough to meet them April 13 during their tour of Iraq.
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Sunday, October 5, 2008

Only 100 Medal Of Honor Recipients Still Alive


Medal of Honor Recipients
Total Awards 3,462
Posthumous 620
Army 2,358
Navy 747
Marines 297
Army Air Corps 42
Coast Guard 1
Air Force 17

Eight civilians have received Medals of Honor including Dr. Mary Edwards Walker (the only woman to ever receive the award), one civilian scout and two civilian Naval pilots during the Civil War, and 4 civilian scouts during the Indian Campaigns (including William Cody..."Buffalo Bill").



http://www.homeofheroes.com/moh/war/1_a_main.html


100 Living Recipients as of Sep. 11, 2008
LAST NAME FIRST NAME SERVICE WAR Action Date
Baca John Army Vietnam 1970-02-10
Bacon, USA (Ret) 1SG Nicky D. Army Vietnam 1968-08-06
Baker, Jr. USA (Ret) MSG John F. Army Vietnam 1966-11-05
Baker Vernon J. Army WWII 1945-04-05
Ballard, KSARNG Col. Donald E. Navy Vietnam 1968-05-16
Barfoot, USA (Ret) COL. Van T. Army WWII 1944-05-23
Barnum, Jr., USMC (Ret) Col. Harvey C. Marine Vietnam 1965-12-18
Beikirch Gary B. Army Vietnam 1970-04-01
Biddle Melvin E. Army WWII 1944-12-23
Brady, USA (Ret) MG Patrick H. Army Vietnam 1968-01-06
Bucha Paul W. Army Vietnam 1968-03-16
Cafferata, Jr. Hector A. Marine Korea 1950-11-28
Cavaiani, USA (Ret) SGM Jon R. Army Vietnam 1971-06-04
Charette, USN (Ret) HMCM (SS) William Navy Korea 1953-03-27
Colalillo Mike Army WWII 1945-04-07
Coolidge Charles H. Army WWII 1944-10-24
Crandall Bruce P. Army Vietnam 1965-11-14
Currey Francis S. Army WWII 1944-12-21
Davis Sammy L. Army Vietnam 1967-11-18
Day, USAF (Ret) Col. George E. USAF Vietnam 1967-08-26
Dewey, USMCR CPL. Duane E. Marine Korea 1952-04-16
Dix, USA (Ret) MAJ. Drew D. Army Vietnam 1968-01-31
Dolby David C. Army Vietnam 1966-05-21
Donlon, USA (Ret) COL. Roger H.C. Army Vietnam 1964-07-06
Dunham Russell Army WWII 1945-01-08
Ehlers Walter D. Army WWII 1944-06-09
Ferguson Frederick E. Army Vietnam 1968-01-31
Finn, USN (Ret) Lt. John W. Navy WWII 1941-12-07
Fisher, USAF (Ret) Col. Bernard F. USAF Vietnam 1966-03-10
Fitzmaurice Michael J. Army Vietnam 1971-03-23
Fleming, USAF (Ret) Col. James P. USAF Vietnam 1968-11-26
Foley, USA
(Ret) LTG Robert F. Army Vietnam 1966-11-05
Fox, USMC (Ret) Col. Wesley L. Marine Vietnam 1969-02-22
Fritz, USA (Ret) LTC Harold A. Army Vietnam 1969-01-11
Hagemeister, USA (Ret) LTC Charles Army Vietnam 1967-03-20
Hajiro Barney J. Army WWII 1944-10-19
Hawk John D. Army WWII 1944-08-20
Herda Frank A. Army Vietnam 1968-06-29
Hernandez, USA (Ret) CPL. Rodolfo P. Army Korea 1951-05-31
Howard, USA (Ret) COL. Robert L. Army Vietnam 1968-12-30
Hudner, USN (Ret) Capt. Thomas J. Navy Korea 1950-12-04
Ingman, Jr. Einar H. Army Korea 1951-02-06
Ingram, Robert R. Navy Vietnam 1966-03-28
Inouye Daniel Army WWII 1945-04-21
Jackson, USAF (Ret) Col. Joe M. USAF Vietnam 1968-05-12
Jackson, USAR (Ret) CPT. Arthur J. Marine WWII 1944-09-18
Jacobs, USA (Ret) COL. Jack H. Army Vietnam 1968-03-09
Jenkins Don Army Vietnam 1969-01-06
Keller Leonard B. Army Vietnam 1967-05-02
Kelley, USN (Ret) Capt. Thomas G. Navy Vietnam 1969-06-15
Kellogg, Jr., USMC (Ret) Sgt Maj. Allan J. Marine Vietnam 1970-03-11
Kerrey Joseph R. Navy Vietnam 1969-04-14
Kinsman Thomas J. Army Vietnam 1968-02-06
Lee, USMC (Ret) LTC Howard V. Marine Vietnam 1966-08-08
Lemon Peter C. Army Vietnam 1970-04-01
Litkey Angelo Army Vietnam 1967-12-06
Littrell, USA (Ret) CSM Gary L. Army Vietnam 1970-04-04
Livingston, USMC (Ret) MajGen James E. Marine Vietnam 1968-05-02
Lynch Allan J. Army Vietnam 1967-12-15
Marm, Jr., USA (Ret) COL. Walter J. Army Vietnam 1965-11-14
Maxwell Robert D. Army WWII 1944-09-07
McGarity Vernon Army WWII 1944-12-16
McGinty, III, USMC (Ret) CPT. John J. Marine Vietnam 1966-07-18
McNerney, USA (Ret) 1SGT David H. Army Vietnam 1967-03-22
Millett, USA (Ret) COL. Lewis L. Army Korea 1951-02-07
Miyamura Hiroshi H. Army Korea 1951-04-24
Mize, USA (Ret) COL. Ola L. Army Korea 1953-06-10
Modrzejewski, USMC (Ret) Col. Robert J. Marine Vietnam 1966-07-15
Murray, Jr., USA (Ret) COL. Charles P. Army WWII 1944-12-16
Nett, USA (Ret) COL. Robert B. Army WWII 1944-12-14
Norris, USN (Ret) Lt. Thomas R. Navy Vietnam 1972-04-10
O'Malley Robert E. Marine Vietnam 1965-08-18
Oresko Nicholas Army WWII 1945-01-23
Patterson, USA (Ret) CSM Robert M. Army Vietnam 1968-05-06
Pittman, USMC (Ret) MSgt. Richard Marine Vietnam 1966-07-24
Pope Everett P. Marine WWII 1944-09-19
Rascon Alfred Army Vietnam 1966-05-16
Ray Ronald E. Army Vietnam 1966-06-19
Roberts, USA COL. Gordon R. Army Vietnam 1969-07-11
Ross, USA (Ret) MSgt. Wilburn K. Army WWII 1944-10-30
Rosser, USA (Ret) SFC Ronald E. Army Korea 1952-01-12
Rubin (Ret) Corporal Tibor Army Korea 1950-07-23 to 1953-08-20
Ruiz Alejandro R. Army WWII 1945-04-28
Sakato George T. Army WWII 1944-10-29
Sasser Clarence Army Vietnam 1968-01-10
Simanek, USMC Robert E. Marine Korea 1952-04-17
Sprayberry, USA (Ret) LTC James M. Army Vietnam 1968-04-25
Stone, USA (Ret) COL. James L. Army Korea 1951-11-21
Stumpf, USA (Ret) SGM Kenneth E. Army Vietnam 1967-04-25
Swett, USMCR (Ret) Col. James E. Marine WWII 1943-04-07
Taylor, USA (Ret) MAJ. James A. Army Vietnam 1967-11-09
Thacker Brian M. Army Vietnam 1971-03-31
Thornton, USN (Ret) Lt. Michael E. Navy Vietnam 1972-10-31
Thorsness, USAF (Ret) Col. Leo K. USAF Vietnam 1967-04-19
Vargas, USMC (Ret) Col. Jay R. Marine Vietnam 1968-04-30
Wahlen, USA (Ret) MAJ. George E. Navy WWII 1945-03-03
West Ernest E. Army Korea 1952-10-12
Wetzel Gary G. Army Vietnam 1968-01-08
Wiedorfer, USA (Ret) MSG Paul J. Army WWII 1944-12-25
Williams Hershel W. Marine WWII 1945-02-23

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