Medal Of Honor Recipient

Medal of Honor recipient Ret. Col. Donald Ballard of Kansas City, Missouri makes his remarks at a dinner for the Missouri's National Veterans Memorial in Frontenac, Missouri on Saturday, May 21, 2022. Ballard, a Hospital Corpsman Second Class of the Vietnam war, is one of 65 living recipients of the medal that has been awarded to 3,520. The medal is the highest military decoration presented by the United States government to a member of its armed forces. Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI