Medal of Honor Hero Sammy Davis talks about coming home

Note from Chaplain Kathie

On Saturday Medal of Honor Hero Sammy Davis and his wife Dixie attended the Orlando Nam Knights fundraiser for Homes For Our Troops. Before the event, Sammy and Dixie took time out to talk to me and share a story few have ever heard. This is part one. Part Two is Sammy's speech and he talks about being in Vietnam. Part three is a message Sammy has for the troops coming home and for our veterans with PTSD. Dixie has a message for the wives.

May 5, 2012

At the Orlando Nam Knights fundraiser for Homes For Our Troops, Vietnam Veteran and Medal of Honor hero Sammy Davis talked to me about what it was like coming home after all he'd been through. It is a story few have heard before. As Sammy put it, it is one of the reasons no other veteran will ever come home treated like that again.

"Wimpy" read the citation about what Sammy did in Vietnam and Sammy talked about what he came home to. As you watch this, think of all he did, all he went through, only to be treated the way he was. I adored Sammy before hearing this but now, I can't think of a more magnificent example of the finest this nation has.