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Listening to his actions makes my brain scream out "What took so long??" Was a 60 year wait really necessary? Thankfully Col Davis, now in his 80s, is still alive to receive it in person.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/03/politics/medal-of-honor-paris-davis-us-army/index.html
FemDemERA
(431 posts)For sharing this article. If it was shown on tv news, I missed it.
Thank you Col Davis, for your service.
And thank you to this administration and POTUS for getting this done.
NowISeetheLight
(3,991 posts)I was driving in my car this morning and listening to MSNBC on Sirius. Righting an old wrong. I heard this along with the reading of the citation. Reminded me of Dorie Miller. He deserved the Medal of Honor but ended up with the Navy Cross (3rd highest medal at that time). A senator and representative both introduced bills to give him the Medal of Honor.
Navy Cross Citation:
For distinguished devotion to duty, extraordinary courage and disregard for his own personal safety during the attack on the Fleet in Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941. While at the side of his Captain on the bridge, Miller, despite enemy strafing and bombing and in the face of a serious fire, assisted in moving his Captain, who had been mortally wounded, to a place of greater safety, and later manned and operated a machine gun directed at enemy Japanese attacking aircraft until ordered to leave the bridge.
DET
(1,770 posts)Apparently, his application was lost - twice. Some speculate it was because of his race. Very humble man; even his daughter wasn’t aware of the extent of his heroic actions.