[x1stcav]

I always wonder about these decorations that they decide to award decades later.

We were called out for an awards ceremony at Benning in ‘69 for a DSC awarded for action 25 years earlier.

I wonder what changes/happens in the interim?

[Fantasywriter]

This is a different guguyy, but it may help explain it:

By DAVE PHILIPPS

JULY 30, 2016

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Unofficially, in the jungles of Laos in 1970, hundreds of North Vietnamese troops closed in on a small team of United States Army commandos. Unofficially, as men were shot down, a medic sprinted through a hail of bullets to help, hefting a man over his shoulder as he fired back with one hand. Unofficially, even when bloodied by a rocket, the medic kept going, not sleeping for days as he cared for 51 wounded soldiers.

Officially, though, American troops were not in Laos. So officially, nothing happened.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/us/secret-war-laos-gary-rose.html?referer=https://www.bing.com/search?q=nixon%20medal%20of%20Honor%20reluctant%20%20Vietnam%20&qs=n&form=QBRE&pc=SMSM&sp=-1&pq=nixon%20medal%20of%20honor%20&sc=0-21&sk=&cvid=971043CA05294B459FB7C366E4ABDC2B

[2CAVTrooper]

My dad’s friend received a Silver Star for action in Vietnam about 30 years after he was put in for it.