Medal of Honor Hero Sammy Davis had busy week

The Orlando Nam Knights held another fundraiser for Homes For Our Troops on Saturday. Sammy is in the middle of this picture. I met Sammy and his wife Dixie a few times in the past but never really had a chance to talk to him. Saturday we sat together for an interview and it will be up on this blog as soon.

While you don't hear much about what he's doing, he's doing it and going around the country with Dixie but the national media doesn't have much time for this national hero!

Medal of Honor recipient visits students
By Matt Lakin
Knoxville News Sentinel via AP Posted : Sunday May 6, 2012

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — For Sammy Davis, the greatest honor comes from seeing the children’s faces as they hold his medal in their hands.

“When you see the looks on their faces and hear the questions they ask, it’s very easy to open up your heart and let them look in,” he said recently. “There have been over 2.5 million children hold this medal. I tell them, it’s theirs. I’m just the caretaker of it.”

Davis, 65, received the Medal of Honor for holding off a Viet Cong assault and for saving three wounded members of his Army artillery crew during fighting near Cai Lay, Vietnam, on Nov. 18, 1967. He came to Knoxville to take questions from elementary students at Sacred Heart Cathedral School and to help promote the Medal of Honor Society’s upcoming convention in Knoxville, set for October 2014.

Organizers estimate the convention could bring more than $2 million in revenue.
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