On this National Vietnam War Veterans Day, I honor friend and neighbor Jimmy Floren, fire squad leader, Second Battalion, Fifty Marines, First Division, who was awarded the Navy Cross and Purple Heart posthumously for aiding a wounded man under fire & getting the machine gun position back into action when his gun crew was wounded. He was 21, and since he died serving our country, I’m not sure if that technically makes him a veteran, but he deserves to be honored.
