As of March 2025, Howard is the only soldier among the 3,547 Medal of Honor recipients to be nominated for the United States ... during the Vietnam War, but the course of his military career ...

Nearly 400 people — most of whom were Vietnam veterans — gathered on the 60th anniversary of the end of U.S. involvement in ...

He had enlisted in the Air Force in 1953, but left to attend the U.S. Military ... 268 Medal of Honor recipients of the Vietnam War. He spent the rest of his 30-plus-year career in the Army ...