This Korean War hero was awarded the Medal of Honor after 72 years

With the decisive battles of 1950 through 1951 behind it, the Korean War simmered down to negotiations toward an armistice, in parallel with a seemingly endless series of minor melees over various strategic scraps of higher-altitude real estate.

While United Nations and communist forces argued daily at Panmunjom — a village in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea — the soldiers who fought for those hillocks ultimately tallied up greater casualties than had been suffered in the first two years. One such embattled objective was Hill 420, called Outpost Harry by the Americans and Haros (“Charon,” the mythical ferryman who carried dead souls to Hades) by the Greek soldiers who fought alongside them in June 1953. The hill may have been minor, but it produced a major her