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  • Wash. Medal of Honor Winner Dies at 79

    11/14/2005 5:57:33 AM PST · by Born Conservative · 13 replies · 935+ views
    Yahoo News ^ | 11/11/2005
    TACOMA, Wash. - Robert Eugene Bush, who received a Medal of Honor for bravery in tending to the wounded while under enemy fire at Okinawa, has died at age 79. Bush was one of Washington state's last living recipients of the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military honor, from World War II . He died Tuesday. Former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw, who wrote about Bush in his best-seller "The Greatest Generation," left a voicemail for the family after hearing the news. "He was one of my very favorite people," Brokaw said. "He was a great man. He was...