CPL Richard Sanders

According to the Award of the Silver Star and a letter from
1SG Henry Woloszyn, my Dad was killed in the northern portion of Bien Hoa on the 2nd day of a 3-day search and destroy mission. The company was approaching a small ridge directly to it's front when the unit came under an intense volume of automatic and semiautomatic weapons fire from a well-concealed and determined company of VC. Seeing several of his comrades fall in the initial burst of enemy fire, my Dad rushed to their aid and succeeded in rendering aid and carrying the wounded to a position of relative safety.

Without regard for his personal safety, he returned to the scene, rushed to wounded SP4 Matthew Sharpnack who had been rendered unconscious by the initial burst of fire, and began administering aid. Without regard for his personal safety, he returned to the scene, rushed to a wounded soldier who had been rendered unconscious by the initial burst of fire, and began administering aid....it was at that point that they were both mortally wounded by a burst of automatic weapons fire.