VA Hospital in Philadelphia Being Renamed for Vietnam MOH Michael Crescenz

VA Hospital In Philadelphia To Be Renamed In Honor Of Vietnam War Veteran
CBS Philly
Kim Glovas
December 20, 2014

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Philadelphia’s Veterans Administration Hospital is getting a new name, after a bill was signed by President Obama earlier this week.

The bill means the VA hospital in West Philadelphia will be renamed in memory of Michael Crescenz, who lived in West Oak Lane and served in the Vietnam War.

Terry Williamson, president of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, says, “All of the veterans in the region are extremely excited about this. Michael was the only Medal of Honor recipient from Philadelphia for his actions in 1968 when he assaulted multiple machine gun nests.”
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Bill would rename VA hospital for Philadelphia's only Medal of Honor recipient from the Vietnam War
Philly.com
By Robert Moran, Inquirer Staff Writer
POSTED: February 06, 2013

Joseph Crescenz called it "humbling."

Pennsylvania's two U.S. senators, Pat Toomey and Bob Casey, introduced a bill Monday to have the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center renamed after Michael J. Crescenz, the city's only Medal of Honor recipient from the Vietnam War.

Joseph Crescenz was 12 when his brother Michael, 19, was killed while single-handedly taking out enemy machine-gun bunkers on Nov. 20, 1968, in South Vietnam.

U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah (D., Pa.) also introduced a bill Monday to change the facility's name to the Cpl. Michael J. Crescenz Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

"It's still a little surreal that it's happening," said Joseph Crescenz, now 56 and living in East Fallowfield Township.
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