War Hero’s Medal Wait Finally Ends

By Tom Tugend

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/community_briefs/article/war_heros_medal_wait_finally_ends_20050916/

Next Friday, as Tibor Rubin enters the White House, generals will stand at rigid attention. The president of the United States also will rise and then drape the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest award for gallantry in combat, around the neck of the 76-year-old Holocaust survivor and Korean War veteran.

Rubin and a legion of supporters have waited almost 55 years for this triumph of camaraderie and persistence over both bureaucratic lethargy and the prejudice endured by so many old-time Jewish GIs.

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