In 1968, Clarence Sasser was a young combat medic thrust into a nightmare. During a reconnaissance mission in Vietnam, his company was ambushed in a rice paddy. Despite being shot in the leg and unable to walk, Sasser spent the next several hours crawling through the mud, doing his best to care for his fellow soldiers. It would be decades before he was ready to talk about what he saw and heard.

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Episode resource:

AMEDD Center of HIstory & Heritage interview with Clarence Sasser, 3/23/1987

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In 1951, Joseph Rodriguez and his unit were on a ridge in Korea, pinned down by gunfire. There was seemingly no way out. But Rodriguez had something to steady him. Tucked inside his helmet were letters from his girlfriend back home, Rose. He grabbed a handful of grenades and sprinted up the hill to take on the enemy himself. What happened next would change both his and Rose’s lives forever.

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Episode resources:

“A War Hero Speaks,” published in the California Civil Defense, February 25, 1952

Medal of Honor by Peter Collier et al (Artisan Books, 2011)

America’s Heroes, edited by James H Willbanks (ABC-CLIO, 2011)

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In 1951, Joseph Rodriguez and his unit were on a ridge in Korea, pinned down by gunfire. There was seemingly no way out. But Rodriguez had something to steady him. Tucked inside his helmet were letters from his girlfriend back home, Rose. He grabbed a handful of grenades and sprinted up the hill to take on the enemy himself. What happened next would change both his and Rose’s lives forever.

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• Follow Meredith Rollins @meredithkrollins
• Email the team: medalofhonor@pushkin.fm

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