After 57-Year Delay, a Vietnam War Veteran Receives US Army Air Medal

Maryland Del. Justin Ready pins the Air Medal on the shirt of George Keeney.

George Thomas Keeney, 76, a veteran of the Vietnam War, was due to receive his Air Medal from the U.S. Army on Nov. 6, 1966 — but it never came. On Monday — 57 years later — Keeney, now bedridden, was finally presented the award in the living room of his New Windsor home, where […]