The first Medal of Honor ever awarded to a graduate ... and moral crosscurrents that divided the nation during the Vietnam War. The medic who would tend to the wounds of David and others was ...

(Henry Villarama/U.S. Army) For every battle in the Vietnam War, there were numerous small ... major in ferocity — enough to produce two Medal of Honor recipients. Born in Girard, Ohio, on ...

Cmdr. Clyde Lassen piloted a dangerous rescue mission in 1968 to save two Naval aviators shot down in the jungle ...

Nied, the son of the late Walter and Jennie Nied, was wounded twice during the war. He earned a Purple Heart with an oak leaf cluster, the National Defense Service Medal, the Vietnam Service Medal ...

Johnson is posthumously receiving the Medal of Honor for the actions he ... who served in the Vietnam War, was the commander of a Huey helicopter conducting a search-and-destroy reconnaissance ...

Johnson posthumously received the Medal of Honor for the actions he took ... who served in the Vietnam War, was the commander of a Huey helicopter conducting a search-and-destroy reconnaissance ...

Kenneth J. David, who served as a radio-telephone operator during the Vietnam War, was the only living recipient of the Medal of Honor on Friday. The six others received the honor posthumously, with ...