More On Medal of Honor

"Ron slapped me across the face and said 'wake up, you are not going to die today.' And I knew ... I was going to make it."

The Marine Corps said Tuesday that Canley would be the 300th Marine to receive the nation's highest military medal.

Ronald J. Shurer II will receive the Medal of Honor, an upgrade to the Silver Star he was awarded for his actions in 2008.

The only former POW in Congress is backing the bill.

"There's a whole different spirit over our country. ... We're working so hard on that and we're doing the job."

"Continue to tell the stories of all of our fallen and wounded warriors. Never stop saying their names."

Chapman's mother thinks he would have wanted his fellow special operators to get out of the line of fire as fast as possible.

Tech. Sgt. John Chapman is the first airman to be awarded the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War.

The USAF has released video highlights from an overhead aircraft that shows the final moments of Tech Sgt. John Chapman

An Indochinese tiger helped to keep the enemy at bay during a fierce 1966 firefight in Vietnam.