Nearly 60 years after he was recommended for the nation’s highest military award, retired Col. Paris Davis, one of the first Black officers to lead a Special Forces team in.
Nearly 60 years after he was recommended for the nation’s highest military award, retired Col. Paris Davis, one of the first Black officers to lead a Special Forces team in combat, received the Medal of Honor on Friday for his bravery in the Vietnam War. After a crowded White House ceremony, Davis emphasized the positive of the honor rather than negative of the delay, the AP reports, saying, «It is in the best interests of America that we do things like this.» Thanking President Biden, who draped a ribbon with the medal around his neck, he said, «God bless you, God bless all, God bless America.
