HEROES!

Hershel W. Williams, USMC

Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions

in the Battle of Iwo Jima in WWII.

Original Navajo Talkers

Joe Vandevers, Sr (on the left), 6th Marine Division, 3rd Raider BR, 1943 - 1946

Bill Toledo, 3rd Marine Division, 1942 - 1945

Ross Perot

These four men, photographed at our Jackson appearance, are Congressional Medal of Honor recipients.

Left to Right: 

General James Livingston, Vietnam, USMC

Colonel Van T. Barfoot, WWII, Army

Leonard Keller, Vietnam, Army

Gary Wetzel, Vietnam, Army

Pictured above is US Army Lt. Colonel Benjamin H. Purcell.  He Served in both Korea and Vietnam. In 1968 he was captured by the North Vietnamese.  He was held as a prisoner of war, in maximum security, for 5 1/2 years.

This is William A. Robinson, a USAF Crew Chief.  He was the longest held enlisted prisoner of war in Vietnam.  He is also the only enlisted person to be awarded the Air Force Cross.

This is Lex. He was trained by Dog Handler, Cpl Dustin J. Lee, USMC.  Dustin was killed in Iraq.  Lex was wounded, but never left Dustin's side until his unit found him.

Because Dustin was Lex's only handler, he was to be put to sleep.  Dustin's parents petitioned Congress and obtained ownership of Lex.

Lex and the Lee family's mission is to help other veterans who were wounded in combat and to also help the families who have lost a loved one in combat.  

Find out more information about Dustin and Lex at www.mwdlexadoption.blogspot.com and www.remembercpldustinlee.blogspot.com