Medal of Honor

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<p>One man slithered across an open field toward a manned tank, climbed atop and chucked in a grenade, saving his exposed company.</p>
<p>Two others held their ground — each alone — firing into enemy thickets while fellow troops escaped and until the heroes, inevitably, were killed.</p>
<p>For decades, those three soldiers, and many like them, were denied the U.S. military’s highest decoration, veterans’ advocates claim, simply due to the last names on their uniforms: Gomez, Pena and Vera.</p>

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On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of U.S.-led military operations in Iraq, U.S. Representatives Duncan Hunter (R-CA) and Xavier Becerra (D-CA), joined by U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Marco Rubio (R-FL), introduced a joint House-Senate resolution recommending that Marine Corps Sergeant Rafael Peralta be awarded the Medal of Honor.