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.
Ron Dolecki, a 76-year-old Army veteran from Maryland, was imprisoned by Eritrean rebels in the 1960s, but for years the Army refused to award him the POW Medal. The Secretary of the Army just reversed that decision.