Word: medaled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week cannons at Kaneohe Ma rine Air Station on Hawaii thundered a 15-gun farewell to the Brute, now 55, who was calling it quits after 34 years. A Distinguished Service Medal, Krulak's second, was added to the rainbow of ribbons on his chest. Watching were Krulak's three sons-a Navy chaplain and two Marine officers who have all served in Viet Nam. Between them, the Krulaks have won 49 medals...
...electronic gadgets developed by the Defense Department "to take the night away from Charlie." Lieut. Hibbs was well briefed on the scope's importance; though mortally wounded, he smashed it against a tree rather than let it fall into the hands of the enemy. He won a posthumous Medal of Honor for his performance on that night patrol. Since then, thousands of starlight scopes have been shipped to Viet Nam; jungle-wise infantrymen are so impressed by their versatility that they use almost any G.I. dodge to pick up extra scopes for their outfits...
...must I lose this day?" Adding his own invocation to that of the negotiators in Pans to still the guns, the President last week paid homage to four heroes of Viet Nam in a unique Pentagon ceremony, hanging the star-spangled blue silk ribbon and bronze star of the Medal of Honor around the necks of a soldier, a sailor, a Marine and an Air Force pilot. >Army Specialist Five Charles C. Hagemeister, 21, has the kind of bravery that often prompts Viet Cong snipers to single out the aid man as he moves to wounded comrades. Hagemeister raced through...
...heart of the Pentagon's A Ring. He watched solemnly as the quartet affixed brass plaques to walnut panels, dwarfed by three huge replicas of the nation's highest military award for valor, joining their names to those of 3,206 other winners of the Medal of Honor-37 of them in the Viet...
...graduate of Belleville High School, LoPucki lettered in football, hockey, and basketball. Although Belleville did not have a golf team, he was Michigan match play junior champion in 1963, state medal play junior champ in 1964, and a semifinalist in the 1965 U. S. Junior tournament...