It's about time................................

Washington (CNN) -- Rose Mary Sabo Brown spent just
30 days with her new husband, Army Spec. Leslie Sabo Jr., before he
shipped out to fight in Vietnam. But from that month together in 1969
grew a lifetime of love.
"We got married in
September, he got to come home that weekend, and we spent the night
together, and he had to go back to Georgia the next day," Rose told CNN.
After that, Sabo was off to training before returning home for 30 days
that fall.
"We only had that one
month together as a married couple," she told CNN. "He left for Vietnam,
and I never saw him again."
About seven months after
the wedding, two soldiers knocked on the door of her home in western
Pennsylvania to say he was missing in action.
"They came back to me
five days later and told me that he was killed in action by enemy fire,
and that was it. That's all I knew for 32 years."
There was a lot more to
know, and now the nation is honoring what he did those decades ago. On
Wednesday President Barack Obama will award Spec. Leslie Sabo Jr. the
Medal of Honor.
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Brown said her husband
was fun-loving. "The Leslie I knew was always goofing around, having
fun. We had a ball together, my family adored him. Oh my gosh, my mother
keeps saying, 'You couldn't have found anybody better than him to marry
my daughter.'"The people he fought with
in the 101st Airborne Division told Rose that he knew when to put aside
the goofing and focus on fighting.
"When he was over there,
he wore a red bandanna," she said. "And (his fellow soldiers) said when
he put that red bandanna around his forehead, he meant business. He was
a soldier. And they have a picture of him with that red bandanna on,
and the title of it is 'The Soldier.'"
The Soldier's last
stand, near the Se San River in Cambodia on May 10, 1970, is documented by the Department of Defense:
"Even though his platoon
was ambushed from all sides by a large enemy force, Sabo charged the
enemy position, killing several enemy Soldiers. He then assaulted an
enemy flanking force, successfully drawing their fire away from friendly
Soldiers and ultimately forcing the enemy to retreat. While securing a
re-supply of ammunition, an enemy grenade landed nearby. Specialist Sabo
picked it up, threw it, and shielded a wounded comrade with his own
body -- absorbing the brunt of the blast and saving his comrade's life.
"Although wounded by the
grenade blast, Sabo continued to charge the enemy's bunker. After
receiving several serious wounds from automatic weapons fire, he crawled
toward the enemy emplacement and, when in position, threw a grenade
into the bunker. The resulting explosion silenced the enemy fire, but
also ended Specialist Sabo's life."
When Obama presents Rose
Mary Sabo Brown with the medal on the pale blue ribbon, it will
complete a circle that began 42 years ago right after her husband's
death. His unit had recommended him for the Medal of Honor, but somehow
it didn't happen. A researcher discovered files about Sabo, and now the
earlier oversight has been corrected.
For now, Brown is
focused on her late husband and the medal he earned more than four
decades ago.
"I've never stopped
thinking about him," she said. "My heart is filled with pride that you
can't even imagine. It will be an honor to share this with anyone who
wants to see it."