Saturday, October 5, 2013

John Baker - Medal of Honor - From Moline, Illinois.
We Were in Gym Class Together


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Private First Class John Baker, Jr., destroyed six enemy bunkers and saved eight comrades during a firefight to relieve a besieged unit in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, on November 5, 1966. On May 1, 1968, President Johnson awarded him the Medal of Honor.