Biden Awards Medal of Honor to Black Vietnam Veteran
Col. Paris Davis’s nomination in 1965, for saving three teammates while injured in battle, hit a wall. It was revived in recent years.
Biden Awards Medal of Honor to Black Vietnam Veteran & Southern University Alumnus
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President Biden on Friday awarded retired Army Special Forces Col. Paris Davis the Medal of Honor for repeatedly risking his life to save his men during a fierce ambush in Vietnam nearly 60 years ago.
Biden underscored the fact that shortly after Paris left Vietnam, under the scourge of America's ongoing racial discrimination, paperwork for Col. Davis' medal of honor went unprocessed twice.
As Biden noted, the men who were with Davis that day in 1965 immediately nominated him for the Medal of Honor, but that paperwork was not processed. Davis told CBS News in 2021 that race was a factor his paperwork disappearing.
"But you know what Captain Davis said after learning he would finally receive the Medal of Honor? Quote: 'America was behind me.' "
Biden underscored the fact that shortly after Paris left Vietnam, under the scourge of America's ongoing racial discrimination, paperwork for Col. Davis' medal of honor went unprocessed twice.
As Biden noted, the men who were with Davis that day in 1965 immediately nominated him for the Medal of Honor, but that paperwork was not processed. Davis told CBS News in 2021 that race was a factor his paperwork disappearing.
"But you know what Captain Davis said after learning he would finally receive the Medal of Honor? Quote: 'America was behind me.' "