Sign up to receive updates when articles like this are published. Sign up to receive alerts when articles like this are published. That day, he received the Silver Star, one of the military's highest awards for valor.
Heroes are for the Late Show.
I was just trying to help a couple of guys who needed help. His words caught my eye on a visit yesterday to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, which sits between Water and South Streets in Lower Manhattan. They got me thinking about Bob Kerrey and the thread that, odd as it may seem, connects his disputed Vietnam past and the fate of the four New York police officers who killed Amadou Diallo. Specialist Arterbury's letter is etched into a glass wall that anchors the Vietnam memorial, now being remodeled. It is a wall of agony.