President Biden will award the Medal of Honor to Ret. U.S. Army Colonel Paris Davis, a Black Vietnam War veteran who’s been waiting to receive the military’s highest honor since he was first nominated for it in 1965.
His valor earned him a nomination for the Medal of Honor — a nomination that the Army inexplicably lost.
In a statement, Davis said Biden’s call Monday “prompted a wave of memories of the men and women I served with in Vietnam – from the members of 5th Special Forces Group and other U.S. military units to the doctors and nurses who cared for our wounded.” “As I anticipate receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor, I am so very grateful for my family and friends within the military and elsewhere who kept alive the story of A-team, A-321 at Camp Bong Son,” Davis said. “I think often of those fateful 19 hours on June 18, 1965 and what our team did to make sure we left no man behind on that battlefield.”
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