HEROIC CITIZEN

	Name of Hero: Mr. Robert Ingram
	Category of Heroic Deed: Military
	Approximate Date of Deed: 3/08/1966
	Hero's age at time of deed: 21
	Hero's Life Status: Living (on Data Base entry date)

Heroic Deed or Accomplishment:

MEDAL OF HONOR HERO IN ACTION In July 1998, Robert R. Ingram was presented with the Medal of Honor by President Clinton. This deserving medal had been a long, delayed, time coming. It had been more than 30 years after he was severely wounded in the Vietnam War, before this recognition was bestowed upon him. The Navy it seems had lost the paper work, but Ingram's comrades discovered at a 1995 reunion, that he was alive and had never been decorated. In Nov. 1997 congress authorized the decoration and waved the legal requirement that the citation had to be presented within two years. There are many reasons why this citation could have been lost, but no one deserves this honor more than this retired Navy Corpsman. Mr. Ingram's unit was under heavy fire from more than 100 North Vietnamese and within a short period of time his unit was overrun and decimated. Mr. Ingram, while tending to the wounded, was shot once in the hand. He continued to help the wounded and was shot again in the knee. Limping on to help other casualties, he was shot through the head, but fired back and killed his attacker. After all this he still continued to aid the wounded, as the citation indicates. Later his vital signs dropped so low that they had tagged him as killed in action and his body was dumped in the dead pile. To survive this ordeal is truly a miracle and to perform in action as he did, is a truly Heroic Action above and beyond any ordinary expectations.