I am thinking about Gordon Yntema today, a Sergeant with the 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam, who earned the Medal of Honor posthumously OTD when he led two platoons of irregular troops in a two day battle against the Viet Cong, wielding his rifle as a club when he ran out of ammunition and refusing to surrender.

Yntema grew up in Michigan and graduated from the Culver Military Academy in Indiana before going the Army in 1964. He was only 22 years old at the time of his death, and he had previously earned the Silver Star.

Yntema is buried in Home Cemetery in Holland, Michigan, his hometown, and he was survived by his wife, Peggy, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Jane. Honor and remember him!