Maryland veteran awarded POW medal, ending 18-year battle with Army

Ron Dolecki, a 76-year-old Army veteran from Huntingtown, Md., was once taken prisoner and held captive by Eritrean rebels in the Sahara desert, but for years the Army refused to award him the POW medal. The Secretary of the Army just reversed that decision, granting him the recognition and ending a nearly 20-year bureaucratic battle.

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