it's the obama administration, and it's an election year. maximum cynicism is in order.
for all we know, he is after the dead veteran vote in pennsylvania.
Four decades later, Medal of Honor for newlywed hero's sacrificeWashington (CNN) -- Rose Mary Sabo Brown spent just 30 days with her new husband, Army Spec. Leslie Sabo Jr., before he shipped out to fight in Vietnam. But from that month together in 1969 grew a lifetime of love.
"We got married in September, he got to come home that weekend, and we spent the night together, and he had to go back to Georgia the next day," Rose told CNN. After that, Sabo was off to training before returning home for 30 days that fall.
"We only had that one month together as a married couple," she told CNN. "He left for Vietnam, and I never saw him again."
About seven months after the wedding, two soldiers knocked on the door of her home in western Pennsylvania to say he was missing in action.
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