From the News & Observer:
RALEIGH -- It took more than 43 years, a tireless effort by a former commander and a year of pushing by U.S. Rep. Brad Miller's office, but today a retired Raleigh doctor will finally get the medal he earned in Vietnam but never sought: the Army's highest honor for noncombat heroism.Read the full article
Dr. Lyle Parker, 72, who has lived in Wake County since the mid-1990s, will receive the Soldier's Medal - the same medal Gen. Colin Powell won in Vietnam - in a ceremony at the N.C. Museum of History.
The honor recognizes what Parker did on Jan. 31, 1968, when Camp Ranier - built on a massive Michelin rubber plantation west of Saigon - was under fire as the massive Communist Tet Offensive began with attacks all over South Vietnam.
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