Wednesday, September 9, 2020

Lawmakers push for long-sought Medal of Honor for Black D-Day hero Woodson

Lawmakers push for long-sought Medal of Honor for Black D-Day hero Woodson

Four congressional lawmakers are pushing to award the Medal of Honor posthumously to Cpl. Waverly B. Woodson Jr., a Black Army medic who was wounded on D-Day and spent the next 30 hours treating injured men on the beach until he finally collapsed from his own wounds.

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