In the Eyes of a Daughter

With the war in Iraq and Father's Day just passing I think of my father...my dear and loving dad. My father passed away in 1984 just shy of his 63rd birthday. With his passing, I felt the urge to read all that my dad did for this Country and for my family. He had a breif case full of many things that had happened while in the Army. So, I decided to start a letter to the President. At that time, President Reagon was in office. My father was an exceptional soldier in the U.S. Army. Served 29 years and in five wars. One in particular was in Korea, 1951. On this date my father's company was enrooted to the Chosin Resevoir in convoy when the column was subjected to intense automatic weapons and the small arms fire from a large enemy force, well -entrenched at a strong road block. When the enemy pinned the troops down, my father realizing the seriousness of the sittuation, voluntarily assumed the road block. His forceful act of aggressive leadership drove the enemy from their postitions with heavy casualties and enabled the column to advance. The officer in charge just froze and my father did what he thought was needed; as it turned out to be. To these findings there is no record on my father receiving or being considered for his bravery of saving the few soldier's left in the convoy. I was appalled to see no Medal of Honor for what my father did for the troops; therefore I decided to write to President Reagon. Unfortuallty with the emotions of just losing my dad, I stopped and that was almost 22 years ago. Now with my mother in her 80's and the reminder of this war, brings me to write a letter and that is what I have done. I feel my mother, brother, Paul and I deserve this award for my dad. With the help of Bill and all the information we have, as far a records and news clippings, we now have a case number and because of the many applications on hand and the comlexity of many cases, it may take as long a twelve months before we receive notification of the decision of our application. I am alright with that, as I am hoping the decision will be the right one, as we all deserve this for our father and my mother's husband. My dad was a proud man and a loyal soldier to and for his Country. He had seen much death in all the wars and I am so very proud of him and miss him dearly. May this war in Iraq end soon.......