Medal of Honor Day 2020
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We had friends in common and I would sit at the bar and watch him ring the bicycle bell attached to his large beer mug at a joint called "Golden Nugget" which was located on US 378 across the street from the end of Leaphart Road ...
Until the local authorities shut it down for being too "las vegas like" or so I was told. This was in the video poker heyday and I can see the over reaction. The few times I had visited the bar it was pretty innocuous as far as such 'dens of inquity' go. I had experienced much worse many times before.
Speedy Wilson was a friendly regular guy who was not one to project airs or pretentiousness and spoke of regular every day things and I enjoyed our very few and brief interactions prior to his passing on March 29, 1998.
My dear compadre Dewitt Casey who was our mutual friend had passed a scant 90 days before on December 30, 1997 leaving me to my own devices and pursuit of both company and entertainment choices ... and they were both mighty entertaining as I recall.
Today is Medal of Honor Day. It is a United States Federal Holiday observed each March 25 to honor the "heroism and sacrifice of Medal of Honor recipients in the United States.
So if you are so honored this is your day. You join the ranks of Harold E "Speedy" Wilson and as such are deserving of the utmost respect of everyone you meet.
I personally view the decline in public awareness of the just how important the Medal of Honor — our highest military decoration — is to be a travesty of United States History due to the lack of pertinent individuals who choose to pursue some false revisionist history instead of the true past of the Republic.