Incredible Tribute to Leslie Sabo, a"h, Vietnam War Hero

By Rabbi Asher Lopatin
Published on May 17, 2012

Congress approves review of medals for Jewish WWI vets

Published on December 21, 2011

Congress approved a requirement for the U.S. military to review World War I records to determine whether Jews who received decorations should be upgraded to the Medal of Honor.

War Hero’s Medal Wait Finally Ends

By Tom Tugend
Published on September 15, 2005

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.

Hero Not Forgotten

By Tom Tugend
Published on May 30, 2002

Almost 58 years after U.S. Army dentist Capt. Benjamin Lewis Salomon was killed defending his aid station against Japanese troops, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, the American military's highest decoration, by President Bush.