Retired Army Col. Paris Davis, a Vietnam War veteran and one of the country’s first Black Special Forces officers, received the Medal of Honor nearly 60 years after he was first nominated
Retired Army Col. Paris Davis, a Vietnam veteran and one of the country’s first Black Special Forces officers, received the Medal of Honor from President Biden Friday, nearly 60 years after he was first nominated.
Col. Davis, 83 years old, enlisted in the Army in 1959, just over a decade after the military was desegregated. When he wanted to join the Special Forces, Mr. Biden said, some in the elite group asked if he was sure, since most people in the force didn’t look like him.
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