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Col. Ralph Puckett emerged from his position and ran three times into an open area to attract the attention of Chinese forces, allowing his fellow soldiers to identify the other side and destroy their positions.

U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey is among the politicians sponsoring the legislation. It authorizes the president to award the medal to Waverly B. Woodson Jr., a Black army medic who saved dozens of wounded troops on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day.