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Share This: Photos: Medal of Honor Society, Steve Hassett, War Stories of the Dead- Bad Night at LZ Bird Staff Sergeant Delbert O. Jennings was an Army NCO whose bravery during a pitched battle at LZ (Landing Zone) Bird in South Vietnam on December 27, 1966, would result in him being awarded the Medal of Honor.  Jennings was born in Silver City, New Mexico in July of 1936. He joined the Army in San Francisco in 1956. Ten years later, Jennings was a Staff Sergeant in Company C, 1st Battalion (Airborne), 12th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Division. His unit was assigned to LZ Bird, a forwa...

Our readers also believe we need to change our nation's pharmaceutical policies My father grew up in north Portland and graduated from Jefferson High before joining the Navy. Scheduled to be discharged six weeks prior to Pearl Harbor, he was issued stop gap orders from the War Department and assigned to the new aircraft carrier USS Wasp, CV-7, to ferry new aircraft to England and the island of Malta in support of the Battle of Britain. While on survivor's leave after the Wasp was torpedoed southeast of Guadalcanal he met and married mother, who was a real "Rosie the Riveter," making bomb-ba...

And we thank all those that have worked so diligently to try to protect us and at the same time help us to get our arms around it a little bit. i have to say i didn't think about the emotions that were very deep even though i was a small boy and have very little memory of my father. but i sat there and i cried for a while. and it took a while to compose myself. and i'm a retired army chaplain i have made notifications and all of those are very difficult. they have always been special to me in a sense because i lost my father and someone had to do that for me and my mother at some point. so, i ...

3. and when i saw my father last. larry was 2. excuse me, larry. i'm not letting you say anything. >> you are doing good. [laughter] >> he served in world war ii? >> he did. he served extensively. he actually went in before the war, deployed as a follow-on division medic with the 83rd infantry division and served in europe for oh, i think, probably over a year in combat. served and received a bronze star with bead of ice and some other awards. he was in for quite a while. got out for a little while and came back in with the first cav division. larry was born 1948 at fort knox. so we were back ...