Vietnam Veteran finally gets his Bronze Star thanks to Senator Webb

Va. Veteran Receives Bronze Star
Updated: Friday, 12 Mar 2010, 9:59 PM EST
Published : Friday, 12 Mar 2010, 7:10 PM EST

An award for combat valor 40 years in the making was finally given on Friday. Virginia veteran Phillip O'Donnell received one of the nation's highest honors-- the Bronze Star. It couldn't come soon enough because the former Vietnam combat pilot has cancer, and he says he may not live much longer.

Senator Jim Webb presented the Bronze Star Medal to Warrant Officer O’Donnell, U.S. Army (Ret.), a Stafford resident and Vietnam veteran who served in both the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Army. He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious service by the Army during that assignment, but the decoration was never presented as the result of an administrative oversight.
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