OUTSTANDING...!!!
Posted on 02/09/2007 2:26:06 PM PST by art_rocks
Is this ever deserved. Better late than never!
I never received my "Good Conduct" Medal, but I was told that I earned one.
It has only been a quarter century......
Hal Moore is still with us! Unfortunately, his wife died two or three years ago....Julie Moore.
You can still get it. A copy of your DD Form 214 sent to the Awards and Decorations office in Alexandria should be all you need. That's assuming you were Army.
When I was getting ready to retire from the Army I had not received a GCM for my initial three years as an enlistee. They cut the orders and issued the award. I had not thought about it until then.
Search around the web for the Army Personnel Center, etc.
Years ago it was MILPERCEN. Something else now.
frickin' guardian angel.... what a man...
PING
Check this out. Bruce Crandall's children put together this website in honor of their dad. Excellent.
http://www.promotionarts.com/xav8er/citizen.html
I just watched "We Were Soldiers" the other evening. It is one of my favorite movies of the past ten years.
http://www.promotionarts.com/xav8er/
This is the intro to the previous website I posted.
OUTSTANDING...!!!
Great news, Ronnie!
At night, under fire, before the NVG era.....that is a miraculous story.
Stonewall Jackson mentality - when it's your time, it's your time. If it ain't, then go for broke.
Good news, thanks for the ping PE.
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NEVER FORGET
One Battle of IA DRANG-1965 Veteran,
then:
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm
and now:
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm
NEVER FORGET
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Son of Snake, Congratullations.
GARRY OWEN, Sir.
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NEVER FORGET
For...
'WE WERE SOLDIERS ONCE...& YOUNG'...4 FREEDOM
http://www.Freerepublic.com/forum/a39626542519c.htm
NEVER FORGET
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NEVER FORGET
Battle of IA DRANG-1965 Lifesaver BRUCE CRANDALL's Congressional Medal of Honor process had been stalled for years,
...until shortly after our Annual IA DRANG Alumni Washington, D.C. Conference was held in Novermber 2001:
,,A Freeper Vet goes to the Vietnam Wall..
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1019769/posts
An IA DRANG Alumni Conference that was held in honor of our recently murdered U.S. 7th Cavalry Brother & World Trade Center Hero,
9/11 Lifesaver RICK RESCORLA, ..R.I.P.
http://www.RickRescorla.com
http://www.RickRescorla.com/The%20Statue.htm
http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24361
NEVER FORGET
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I am honestly overwhelmed with the strength of the emotion which I feel on this day. Forty years of knowing that this day should be and wondering if it ever would be. I can honestly say that while I am pleased as punch that my father will be receiving this medal I am no more proud of him today than I have been for every day. You see I always knew this was the reality of who he was. The exciting thing for me is not that he is receiving the medal but that everyone else is now being given a chance to know my father as I have always known him. Honor is not something which will come to him because of a medal hung around his neck but honor is something which is part of him and because of that he will have the medal hung around his neck.
And the exciting news is that there are many young men and women serving our country who are made of the same metal and their sons and daughters have every right to be as proud of their parents for their service in Iraq as I am for my father's service in Vietnam.
On a special note to a good friend. ALOHA - Your concern and support for many years has not been forgotten. Thank you.
Interesting note is the medal of honor will be presented to my father on February 26, 2007. This is five years to the day when he and my mother dined at the White House and attended a special screening of the film "We Were Soldiers" with President Bush.
mdcrandall
Proud to be
#3 Son of Snake
www.xav8er.com
www.army.mil/medalofhonor/Crandall
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