At one point during the battle, Davis said he recalled a general observing the fight from a helicopter ordering him to leave before one of the wounded soldiers was flown out. He refused.
"He said, 'You know you're disobeying an order?' And I said, 'Yes, sir, I understand that. But I'm not leaving,'" Davis told ABC News."The general said ... 'If I was down there, I'd probably kick your ass.' And I said, 'You know what, general, there's a lot of room down here.' And that was the end of the conversation. He never landed, and I never kicked his ass," Davis said.
For his actions, he was awarded the nation's third-highest military decoration, the Silver Star. But according to Davis, requests for his award to be upgraded to a Medal of Honor were inexplicably lost by the Army twice over the years."I wish I could say that this story of Paris' sacrifice on that day in 1965, was fully recognized and rewarded immediately," Biden said. "But sadly, we know they weren't.
"Due to lack of records, we cannot say for sure, but we are pleased that the president will soon bestow this overdue honor to Col. Paris Davis and his family," Army spokeswoman Madison Bonzo told ABC News on Wednesday.Davis, with his first name inspired by the ancients, alluded to Greek tragedy when explaining the resolution to his decades-long case.
"The soldiers that you served with, the soldiers you were in the war with, become that Greek chorus. They pick up the voice of saying 'We aren't gonna let this rest, we are going to keep after it until we get it done.' And that's the saving grace I'm so thankful for," he said. Capt. Paris Davis is awarded a Silver Star on Dec. 15, 1965. Davis received the award for his actions during a battle in Bong Son, Republic of Vietnam, June 17-18, 1965.
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