Obit Decorated Soldier
AP News 2009-12-24 02:16:46
FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 27, 2001 picture, Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Robert Howard, second from right, talks with others before the start of a memorial service at the Old North Church in Boston. Howard, considered to be the country's most decorated soldier has died. Oak Crest Funeral Home in Waco, Texas, says retired Col. Robert Lewis Howard died Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2009. He was 70. Also in the photograph, other medal recipients, Melvin Biddle, far right, of Anderson, Ind., and Aruthur Jackson, with his wife Kathlyn Doell-Jackson, both of Boise, Idaho, also attended the annual convention held by the Congressional Medal of Honor Society. (AP Photo/SEVANS)
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