WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump's presentation of the Medal of Honor to James McCloughan (all times local):
3:25 p.m.
An Army medic who saved wounded soldiers from a Vietnam War kill zone despite his own serious injuries is receiving the Medal of Honor from President Donald Trump.
The medal is the nation's highest military honor for actions in combat, and Monday is Trump's first time presenting it.
The recipient is 71-year-old James McCloughan (mih-KLOO'-uhn), of South Haven, Michigan.
Trump says McCloughan "ran into danger" to rescue other men.
McCloughan was a 23-year-old private first class who ended up in the middle of a raging, two-day battle in Vietnam in 1969.
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