Sep 28, 2006 · While the public image of Medal of Honor recipient Roy Benavidez is what one might expect of a war hero _ the silent, stoic military man _ his children paint a portrait of a more complex...

In 1976, Benavidez, his wife, and their three children returned home to El Campo, Texas. He devoted his remaining years to the youth of America, speaking to them about the importance of staying in school and getting an education.

Jan 3, 2025 · Roy Benavidez’ children, Noel Benavidez, Yvette Benavidez Garcia and Denise Prochazka hold his Medal of Honor at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley on Friday, Jan. 3, 2025 during...

Jul 6, 2024 · The three children of the late Master Sgt. Roy Benavidez, a Medal of Honor recipient who called El Campo home, recently donated the candy jar they received from President Ronald Reagan on Feb. 24, 1981 in the Oval Office, the same day he presented their father with the nation’s highest honor for military personnel.

Jan 4, 2025 · To his children, Master Sgt. Roy P. Benavidez was a teddy bear. He was a softhearted protector who believed in faith, family and hurdling obstacles. To the world, he was an Army Green Beret...

Jul 3, 2015 · At StoryCorps, his daughter Yvette Benavidez Garcia and her husband, Rene, remember the aftermath of the battle. Roy P. Benavidez died in 1998. Click here to watch President Ronald Reagan present Roy P. Benavidez with the Medal of Honor in 1981.

Jan 6, 2024 · Roy P. Benavidez' daughter, Yvette, talks about her father and the children's book that she wrote about him entitled, "Tango Mike Mike: The Story of Master ...

Nov 10, 2015 · Yvette Benavidez Garcia, the daughter of Master Sgt. Roy P. Benavidez, of El Campo, came across a photo album long buried under numerous albums stored in a closet at her parent's house....

Vision Quest, an organization known for working with problem youths, named a youth boot camp Fort Roy P. Benavidez in Uvalde, Texas after him. Master Sergeant Benavidez was further recognized by the naming of the Roy P. Benavidez Elementary School in Houston, Texas.

Roy Benavidez was born to a Mexican father and Yaqui mother in southern Texas in 1935. Within two years of his birth, his father passed away from tuberculosis, and just three years after that, his mother also succumbed to the disease.