Richard L. Etchberger
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In this 1968 black-and-white US Air Force photo, via the Reading Eagle, Sgt. Richard L. Etchberger, a native of Hamburg, Pa., is shown during the Vietnam war. President Barack Obama awarded the Medal of Honor to Etchberger, an airman killed during combat in Laos in 1968. (AP Photo/USAF, Reading Eagle)
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First Lady Michelle Obama and U.S. President Barack Obama arrive to award Chief Master Sergeant Richard L. Etchberger, U.S. Air Force, the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry in the East Room of the White House in Washington on September 21, 2010. Etchberger was killed in Laos in 1968 helping to save wounded men. UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg
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President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010, before presenting the Medal of Honor posthumously to Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Richard L. Etchberger, Corey Etchberger during a ceremony. Etchberger received the honor for his heroic actions in combat in Laos on March 11, 1968, after deliberately exposing himself to enemy fire in order to put his wounded comrades in rescue slings permitting them to be airlifted to safety.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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President Barack Obama presents the Medal of Honor posthumously to the sons of Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Richard L. Etchberger, right to left, Richard Etchberger Corey Etchberger, and Steve Wilson, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. Etchberger received the honor for his heroic actions in combat in Laos on March 11, 1968, after deliberately exposing himself to enemy fire in order to put his wounded comrades in rescue slings permitting them to be airlifted to safety. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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President Barack Obama presents the Medal of Honor posthumously to the sons of Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Richard L. Etchberger, from right, Richard Etchberger, Corey Etchberger, and step son Steve Wilson , Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Etchberger received the honor for his heroic actions in combat in Laos on March 11, 1968, after deliberately exposing himself to enemy fire in order to put his wounded comrades in rescue slings permitting them to be airlifted to safety. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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U.S. President Barack Obama stands with sons Steven Wilson and Cory and Richard Etchberger after Obama awarded Chief Master Sergeant Richard L. Etchberger, U.S. Air Force, the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry in the East Room of the White House in Washington on September 21, 2010. Etchberger was killed in Laos in 1968 helping to save wounded men. UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg
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Richard Etchberger, center, carries his father's, Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Richard L. Etchberger, Medal of Honor that was present posthumously by President Barack Obama, following a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. Etchberger received the honor for his heroic actions in combat in Laos on March 11, 1968, after deliberately exposing himself to enemy fire in order to put his wounded comrades in rescue slings permitting them to be airlifted to safety. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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President Obama presents the Medal of Honor to the sons of the late Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Richard L. Etchberger -- (from left) Richard Etchberger, Corey Etchberger and Steve Wilson -- on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
