Finally

CNN has an article by Chelsea Carter and Halimah Abdullah about overdue honors:

If not for the hue of their skin or their ethnicity, two dozen soldiers who faced death in service to their nation would have received the most prestigious medals for their valor long ago. But they were born and fought in a time when such deeds were not always fairly acknowledged. On Tuesday, the U.S. government corrected the oversight.
President Barack Obama honored 24 Army veterans with the Medal of Honor, the country's highest military award, given to American soldiers who display "gallantry above and beyond the call of duty ", for their combat actions in Vietnam, Korea, and World War Two. "Some of these soldiers fought and died for a country that did not always see them as equal," Obama said during a ceremony at the White House. "Their courage almost defies imagination."
Only three of the soldiers are alive to receive the recognition. The rest, soldiers with last names like Garcia and Weinstein and Negron, are dead.
Of the 24 honored, ten never came home. The body of one, Corporal Joe Baldonado, has never been recovered, Obama said.
For the few who survive, such as Melvin Morris, this day has been more than forty years in the making. He was fresh-faced and noneteen when he volunteered to go to Vietnam. In 1969, the Green Beret "charged into a hail of fire" to save his injured comrades and retrieve the bodies of the fallen, even though he was shot several times and bleeding. The Army would later say his actions on the battlefield that day showed "determination possessed by few men".
"The staff sergeant recovered a fallen comrade... and took out several bunkers even after he was shot several times," Obama said.
He was honored in 1970 with the Army's Distinguished Service Cross. Today, at age 72, Morris, who is African-American, received his nation's most esteemed military honor.
"I never really did worry about decorations," Morris, who now lives in Cocoa, Florida, told Fox News. He said when he got the word, "I fell to my knees. I was shocked. President Obama said he was sorry this didn't happen before. He said this should have been done 44 years ago."
There are others too. They are men like Santiago J. Erevia, a radiotelephone operator from Texas who, in 1969, tended injured comrades in Vietnam when his position came under attack. According to the Military Times, "without hesitation Specialist Erevia crawled from one wounded man to another," then charged while armed toward the hostile fire before eventually returning to take care of the injured troops he'd left behind.
They are men like Jose Rodela, who, while commanding a mobile strike force in Vietnam, was "wounded in the back and head by rocket shrapnel while recovering a wounded comrade", according to a military commendation. Still he single-handedly "assaulted and knocked out a rocket position" before returning to lead his men.
Morris, Rodela, and Erevia wore Army uniforms as they accepted the medal, which was placed around their neck by Obama. "In the thick of the fight all those years ago, for your comrades and your country, you refused to yield," the President said.
In 2002, Congress, as part of the Defense Authorization Act, set up a review of Jewish and Hispanic veterans who had served in combat since the middle of the century "to ensure those deserving the Medal of Honor were not denied because of prejudice", explained the White House. The congressional action was later amended to open the door for any serviceman or woman denied the award due to discrimination.
One of those who posthumously received the award is Leonard Kravitz, an assistant machine gunner in the Korean War. He is the uncle and namesake of actor and rock musician Lenny Kravitz.

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