A growing chorus of historians, members of Congress and the U.S. First Army are pressing the case for Waverly B. Woodson Jr., who died in 2005, to receive the nation's highest award for valor.
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An African American combat medic who was wounded while landing on Omaha Beach during the D-Day invasion of France but went on to tend to dozens of troops has been