Thursday, February 12, 2015

Put Out My Hand and Touched the Face of God

He was awarded the Navy Cross, the highest award for valor after the Medal of Honor. [More]
My older brother tells me our uncle was campaigning to get him the gold. If we can locate what he wrote, I'll follow up on this post.


2 comments:

Robert Fowler said...

Semper Fi.

Alex Vraciu and George Codrea can both claim the title of "A man Among Men". We are losing our WWII and Korea vets at 100 a day.

I would like to know the name of the carrier Mr. Vraciu was on that was torpedoed twice. My Dad was on the Lexington and he told me they took a couple of fish. They could have been shipmates.

David Codrea said...

I'll ask. My cousin is trying to find some old documents.