First Lieutenant Dennis M. Strom, a member of Gulf Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, receiving the Silver Star from Major General Ormond R. Simpson, Commanding General, 1st Marine Division. The ceremony attended by Assistant Secretary of the Navy John Warner, Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, and Dr. Norman Vincent Peale took place on November 12, 1969. Image captured by Cpl P. J. LaBrecque.

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