War veteran questions Iraq decisions, vet apathy
BY HARRY LEVINS
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Senior Writer
(KRT) - As Medal of Honor winner Paul Bucha stood to speak to a convention of Vietnam veterans in St. Louis on Wednesday, he removed the distinctive blue-ribboned medal from around his neck and tucked it inside the lectern.
By the time he finished, the veterans were shouting for him to put the medal back on. He did.
Bucha spoke to the national convention of the Vietnam Veterans of America, at the Adam's Mark Hotel. As he took off the medal at the start of his speech, he said, "With what I'm going to tell you today it's inappropriate to wear it."
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