Veterans

Noticed he wasn't wearing the NC ribbon in the 2014 photograph and found the reason:

You know that the first thing I did was check the DoD list of Navy Cross recipients. Esquibel isn’t there, but he is at the Military Times Hall of Valor. So I wrote to our buddy, Doug Sterner and asked for a clarification. Doug says that Esquibel declined the award, probably the first recipient in history (besides Rafael Peralta’s mother), according to Sterner, because Esquibel didn’t feel right accepting the award when so many had died in the engagement, so DoD didn’t include him on their website list. But Doug says that he has the citation;

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