Standing up for our Veterans

One of the highlights of Walt’s time in office was the opportunity to help a veteran who was long-overdue for a ‘thank you’ from a grateful nation.

Minnick was contacted by (Kenneth) Keene’s daughter, Sandra Wicker, in 2008 while campaigning in northcentral Idaho and learned that the former aerospace worker had been trying to secure his medals for about five years, but to no avail. (Read the entire story here.)

But Walt got it done.

An American medic who landed on Iwo Jima, dodged bullets on the beach and watched friends die in one of World War II’s bloodiest battles is getting a belated thank-you from the U.S. Navy: Four medals he should have received before he left the service in 1945 but didn’t finally arrived Saturday.