My Family Said I Could Not Afford Dad’s Birthday Dinner Until The Truth Came Out – The Archivist

applying pressure to a lieutenant colonel’s wound without stopping, and a photograph in my wallet of a twenty-one-year-old corporal named Devon Wade who bled to death twenty minutes before the helicopters arrived while I held his hand and told him he was going to be fine.

I lied to him. That is the part the citation doesn’t mention.

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