Posted on 10/25/2017 2:10:36 PM PDT by topher
President Donald Trump is scheduled to present the Medal of Honor on Monday to a former Green Beret who saved the lives of his fellow soldiers during a Vietnam War mission that the U.S. military at one time never acknowledged.
Gary M. Rose, 69, of Huntsville, Alabama, will be recognized for risking his life while serving as a medic during a firefight in Laos in September 1970.
Because Laos was a neutral country at the time, the mission in which Rose was involved was never officially on the books.
“This medal and the presidential citation, it honors what the (Vietnam-era veteran) had done,” Rose told reporters on Friday. “They were asked to do a very difficult thing and they did it. They fought hard and, unfortunately, many didn’t make it back. This honors them. We stand up for them and are a focal point in that honor.”
Rose said he and his comrades knew at the time this was something different.
(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournalism.com ...
PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN AGAIN!
thank you Mr. Rose for your heroic service. may God continue to bless you and yours.
Honored to share the title of “Brother Knight” with this extraordinary man.
It wasn’t Trump’s fault what happened in 1970, but you would never know that from the way Western Journalism wrote the headline.
It’s NEVER too late to honor our HEROES. Welcome home my brother. RVN 67-68, 9th INF. 3/5 Cav.
Ping.
Read this first in the Canteen; thank you!
but obozo gave Ellen Degenerate some kind of metal.... I still wonder what she had to do to get that... for some reasons kneepads come to mind.
That was an awesome moment! :)
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