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WASHINGTON — President Bush apologized Monday that the country waited decades to honor Master Sgt. Woodrow Wilson Keeble for his military valor in the Korean War in 1951, giving him the Medal of Honor more than 25 years after he died. Keeble, who died in 1982, is the first full-blooded Sioux Indian to receive the nation’s highest military award.
Keeble saved the lives of other soldiers by taking out more than a dozen enemies on a steep hill, even though he was wounded. Pentagon officials had said the legal deadline for awarding the medal had passed, so Congress authorized it last year.
