44 years later, Vietnam vet finally awarded Silver Star+ for fighting his way into an armed North Vietnamese camp to retrieve the body of a fallen soldier.

Via Billy

It took 44 years, but Jamestown resident and Vietnam War veteran Paul Harvey finally got the medals he deserved, including a Silver Star, the military’s third-highest personal decoration for valor in combat, and a Purple Heart.

Born in Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1946, Harvey moved to Narragansett in 1948 and also lived on Long Island, New York and in Nova Scotia, where he attained dual American-Canadian citizenship before settling permanently in Jamestown in 1983.

Harvey, now 71, was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1967. He served in Vietnam as a member of the Army’s 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division (“Wolfhounds”), saw significant combat action and was wounded on the battlefield. He was honorably discharged in 1973.