Nearly 60 years after he was first recommended for the nation's highest military award for his bravery during the Vietnam War, retired Col. Paris Davis, one of the first Black officers to lead a Special Forces team in combat, received the Medal of...
The belated recognition for the 83-year-old Virginia resident came after the recommendation for the medal was lost, resubmitted - and then lost again.
“You are everything this medal means,” Biden said to Davis. “You’re everything our nation is at our best. Brave and big hearted, determined and devoted, selfless and steadfast.” “When you’re fighting, you’re not thinking about this moment,” Davis said. “You’re just trying to get through that moment.”Davis, then a captain and commander with the 5th Special Forces Group, engaged in nearly continuous combat during a pre-dawn raid on a North Vietnamese army camp in the village of Bong Son in Binh Dinh province.
“That word ‘gallantry’ is not much used these days,” Biden said. “But I can think of no better word to describe Paris.” “I believe that someone purposely lost the paperwork,” Ron Deis, a junior member of Davis’ team in Bong Son, told the AP in a separate interview.
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