GI who saved two in Vietnam awarded posthumous medal

GI who saved two in Vietnam awarded posthumous medal

(EXCERPT) By Allison Williams Staff writer

On Sept. 29, 1966, Staff Sgt. Sandy Sanders pulled a drowning South
Vietnamese soldier out of the swift and dangerous Ba River.

They had just reached shore when Sanders heard the screams of another
Vietnamese soldier. For a second time, he dove into the treacherous
water to drag a man to safety.

In honor of those actions, the Army gave Sanders the Soldier's Medal,
the highest award given to soldiers for heroism in a noncombat
situation.

Sanders never knew about it.

Almost 37 years later, on Saturday afternoon, an Army general laid the
award in the arms of his widow, Freda.

To her five children, that seemed appropriate. Freda raised three
girls and two boys and started a successful day-care business.

''They sho...

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