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  • After long campaign, Jewish veteran will finally be honored by U.S. military

    09/17/2005 5:16:08 PM PDT · by JAWs · 13 replies · 6,670+ views
    Jewish Telegraph Agency ^ | September 14, 2005 | Tom Tugend
    After long campaign, Jewish veteran will finally be honored by U.S. military LOS ANGELES, Sept. 14 (JTA) — On Sept. 23, as Tibor Rubin enters the White House, generals will stand at rigid attention, President Bush will rise, and then he’ll drape the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest award for gallantry in combat, around the neck of the 76-year old Holocaust survivor and Korean War veteran. Rubin and a legion of supporters have waited almost 55 years for this moment of triumph of camaraderie and persistence over bureaucratic lethargy and the prejudice that embittered the lives of so many...