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MONTGOMERY – Two days ago, September 15, President Barack Obama awarded Opelika resident Bennie Adkins with America’s highest award, the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions in a desperate fight in Vietnam in 1966.
Alabama Governor, Robert Bentley publicly congratulated Adkins in a video, and we present it here.
[youtube http://youtu.be/jMBEPI4ZSoE]
For more information on Command Sergeant Major Adkins, please click on this LINK.