NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR DAY 2025: Brevard County’s Emory Bennett Paid Ultimate Price During the Korean War
Bennett gallantly maintained his one-man defense providing covering fire for withdrawing soldiers Emory Lawrence Bennett, who grew up on Merritt Island and Cocoa, was a United States Army soldier in the Korean War who posthumously received the U.S. military’s highest decoration, the Medal of Honor. EDITOR’S NOTE: Every American knows that the Medal of Honor […]
