WWI vets like Sgt. Butler of Salisbury deserve Medal of Honor 

By Linda Duyer
via the delmarvanow.com web site 

Salisbury local soldier Sargent William A. Butler is one of the candidates being reviewed to receive the Medal of Honor. On Thursday, April 18, 2019, Senator Van Hollen of Maryland made an about announcement about the World War I Valor Medals Review Act, a new bipartisan legislation that will ensure that minority Veterans who served during WWI get the recognition they deserve.

Why advocate for bestowing the Medal of Honor to long-deceased veterans of World War I, even if those veterans earned medals but were denied the highest honor at the time of the war?

On April 18, a gentleman, who was in the audience of the Cambridge press conference held by U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen regarding this topic, reminded me why.

The man handed me a copy of papers detailing how his father had served in the segregated Army during that war. The man stood before me, saying that his father came back from the war bitter.

It occurred to me that this man carried with him the memory of that bitterness even as he was proud of his father. The man who served in the Army had not earned medals for fighting, but he was wounded — in more ways than one. Yet others fared worse.

This man reminded me why the task force with which I am affiliated is doing this. 

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