On Monday, President Joe Biden personally called Col. Paris Davis (ret.) to deliver the news, informing him that he will receive the Medal of Honor 'for his remarkable heroism during the Vietnam War,' according to a White House statement.
After a delay of nearly six decades, one of the first Black officers in the Green Berets will receive the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest combat decoration for his heroism in Vietnam.
Davis' story, about how his Medal of Honor paperwork mysteriously vanished in 1965, at the height of the civil rights movement, first aired on"Military historian Doug Sterner, who served two tours in Vietnam and has written 108 books on service medals, said the Davis case is unique. Though he'd been hit by a grenade and gunfire, Davis would not leave behind Americans Billy Waugh and Robert Brown. Both were gravely injured — and Brown had been shot in the head, Davis said.
"Everybody I've talked to that served under him says that he's the best officer they've ever served under," he said.
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