Sturkey's book, "The Ballad of Roy Benavidez: The Life and Times of America's Most ... and he didn't receive the medal until 1981. In the early to mid-1970s there was a lot of Vietnam War fatigue ...
The late Master Sergeant Roy P. Benavidez, who was given the Medal of Honor by President Ronald Reagan in 1981, was honored at a private ceremony on Friday, Jan. 3 at the Reagan Library in Simi ...