Armed Forces: Four Who Came Through

"Good God," said Lyndon Johnson, quoting George Washington's eve-of-battle prayer, "what brave men must I lose this day?" Adding his own invocation to that of the negotiators in Pans to still the guns, the President last week paid homage to four heroes of Viet Nam in a unique Pentagon ceremony, hanging the star-spangled blue silk ribbon and bronze star of the Medal of Honor around the necks of a soldier, a sailor, a Marine and an Air Force pilot. >Army Specialist Five Charles C. Hagemeister, 21, has the kind of bravery that...

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