Photo taken at Da Nang on Dec 20, 1965, two days after Ky Phu

My radio operator, Cpl Patrick Iacunato, Jr. received the Silver Star for his own heroic actions. 

Secretary of the Navy Paul Nitze presented me with the Medal of Honor at Marine Barracks, Washington, DC on February 27, 1967. 

Posing in Hanoi on my return to Vietnam. 

The road outside Ky Phu.  It was a pensive and emotional return. 

Describing the battle at Ky Phu to some of the other Americans who returned to Vietnam with me. 

Newsman/author Tom Brokaw received the Society's journalism award in Riverside, CA.  1999 

Posing with a young man in Pueblo, CO (2000).  Courage is displayed in many forms. 

Photo Nick Oresko, MOH, WWII joins me in presenting a Society award to WWII cartoonist Bill Mauldin during the 2000 MOH Convention in Pueblo, Colorado

I've always got time to listen to our youth or sign an autograph.  This young man never met his grandfather.  Grandpa died in Vietnam. 

Official Photo of Barney Barnum,
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
(Manpower and Reserve Affairs) 

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