"Sergeant Richard D. Cecil receives the Silver Star Medal from Colonel Rhodes, deputy chief of staff, 3rd Marine Division in 1966. Cecil, from San Diego, Calif., was awarded for his courageous actions in May, where he helped repel a Viet Cong attack near Danang."

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