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Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Vietnam War Hero RememberedNice story here about a Medal of Honor recipient. " 'Bernie, this is like the valley of the Little Big Horn.' That's the last thing he said to me," Baillargeon remembers.
And then Leisy saw a North Vietnamese sniper in a tree aim and fire a B-40 rocket at them.
In a fraction of a second, he smothered Baillargeon with his body. Gene Clark, 57 and a retired Macomb, Ill., police officer, was the medic who braved bullets to save lives that day. He saw that one of Leisy's hands was gone, his leg and abdomen shredded.
"He said, 'I'm not going to make it, am I?' " Clark recalls.
Yet Leisy continued to direct the fight, waving off Clark to help others.
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