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MANCHESTER — If a picture is worth a thousand words, what about a statue honoring the brave men and women charged with capturing combat images as the chaos of war
Picture it: Halloween, 1968. At the tender age of 17, with the stroke of a pen, Larry Perkins, a rural Missouri farm kid, enlists in the United States Army. After training at Fort Leonard Wood, Perkins is sent to Germany to build bridges, and it doesn't take his commanding officers long to notice the passion for serving our country that lies deep within this young man's heart. So in a short amount of time, Private Perkins is quickly promoted through the ranks and makes Spec. 4.
Three Henry County men, each a combat veteran of the Vietnam War, were recently honored with a one-day trip to the nation’s capital.
Kate O’Hare-Palmer, who served as a U.S. Army nurse, is a national leader of the veteran community.
The Medal of Honor is the nation’s highest medal for valor in combat that can be awarded to members of the armed forces.