Posted on Jun 12, 2019
A Medal of Honor recipient was gunned down in a liquor store robbery
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Congressional Medal of Honor Awarded: Dwight H. Johnson - 1968
President Lyndon Johnson awards the Congressional Medal of Honor to Specialist 5, Dwight H. Johnson. Dwight Hal Johnson (May 7, 1947 – April 30, 1971) a nati...
Very sad news, my friend CW5 Jack Cardwell for posting the incident from 1971.
"A Medal of Honor recipient was gunned down in a liquor store robbery
It was a day like any other day. Dwight Johnson was on his way to the nearby corner store to get some food for his infant son. When he walked in the store that day in April 1971, he accidentally walked in on the store being robbed. That's when the storekeeper shot him to death.
While he was in Vietnam, he seemed impervious to bullets. Dwight Hal Johnson wasn't gunned down until he left his home to go to the nearby liquor store at the wrong time.
Congressional Medal of Honor Awarded: Dwight H. Johnson - 1968
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtbfxfmVInc
"A Medal of Honor recipient was gunned down in a liquor store robbery
It was a day like any other day. Dwight Johnson was on his way to the nearby corner store to get some food for his infant son. When he walked in the store that day in April 1971, he accidentally walked in on the store being robbed. That's when the storekeeper shot him to death.
While he was in Vietnam, he seemed impervious to bullets. Dwight Hal Johnson wasn't gunned down until he left his home to go to the nearby liquor store at the wrong time.
Congressional Medal of Honor Awarded: Dwight H. Johnson - 1968
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtbfxfmVInc
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