Green Beret Robert Howard is the only one of the 3,547 Medal of Honor recipients to be nominated for the United States’ top ...

That loss hit Vietnam veterans particularly hard, because they were the ones awaiting awards paperwork to be ... A few years back he heard from a medic he served alongside, Peter Pagani, who ...

Many of Pitts’ soldiers believed they would not have made it through the ordeal had it not been for the leadership of their ...

After Officer Candidate School, he qualified for Special Forces. He was sent to Vietnam in 1964, where he would receive the Medal of Honor for his courageous and nearly fatal defense of an ...

Both men earned medals for their service in the Vietnam War, but never received ... A few years back he heard from a medic he served alongside, Peter Pagani, who thanked him for saving his life.

It was not until Vietnam, however, that a Black soldier, Riley Pitts, earned both an officer’s commission and the Medal of Honor. Born in Fallis, Oklahoma, on Oct. 15, 1937, Riley Leroy Pitts ...