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GI killed in Vietnam War receives Medal of Honor
May 16, 2012
May 16, 2012
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Updated 4:06 PM ET[/i]
(CBS/AP) WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama awarded the Medal of Honor to a Pennsylvania Army specialist killed in combat in 1970 while serving as a rifleman in Cambodia during the Vietnam War.
Spec. Leslie H. Sabo Jr. received the medal posthumously for heroic action when his platoon was ambushed by North Vietnamese forces in 1970 near the village of Se San in eastern Cambodia.
"This Medal of Honor is being bestowed on a single soldier for his singular courage, but it speaks for the service of an entire generation and to the sacrifice of so
(CBS/AP) WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama awarded the Medal of Honor to a Pennsylvania Army specialist killed in combat in 1970 while serving as a rifleman in Cambodia during the Vietnam War.
Spec. Leslie H. Sabo Jr. received the medal posthumously for heroic action when his platoon was ambushed by North Vietnamese forces in 1970 near the village of Se San in eastern Cambodia.
"This Medal of Honor is being bestowed on a single soldier for his singular courage, but it speaks for the service of an entire generation and to the sacrifice of so
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