Medal of Honor Recipients Meet
From Associated Press
SHREVEPORT, La. — The meeting was scheduled more than two years ago, but the date--Sept. 11--could not have been more poignant for a gathering of nearly 90 of the nation’s Medal of Honor recipients at Barksdale Air Force Base.
Speakers and veterans at the annual convention of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society praised rescue workers, saying they were even prouder to be American.
“Everybody’s got a hero inside them,” said Vietnam veteran and medal recipient John Baker, 57, of Columbia, S.C. “It’s just a matter of where they are at the time.”
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