Clarence Sasser was a quiet kid from Rosharon, Texas

fire never stopped.

The evacuation helicopters finally broke through at dusk.

The medics who waded in found him unconscious in the mud, still gripping the collar of another wounded soldier.

Of the men Clarence Sasser crawled to that day — not one died in that paddy.

President Nixon presented him the Medal of Honor on March 7, 1969. Sasser went back to continue reading …