Jon R. Cavaiani

Jon Robert Cavaiani (August 2, 1943 – July 29, 2014) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War. Cavaiani was released by the Provisional Government of Vietnam on April 27, 1973. 

Cavaiani emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1947 at age four.

Cavaiani died at the age of 70 in Stanford, California. He had myelodysplastic syndrome.

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