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Alex Vraciu for Congressional Medal of Honor

This weekend I was working with my son to find a famous Hoosier to be the subject of a class paper. Trying to think of somebody notable but unusual, I stumbled upon the fact that World War II ace Alex Vraciu was a native Hoosier. For those of you who aren't World War II history buffs, Alex Vraciu flew F6F Hellcats for the Navy during the last two years of WWII. He finished the war with credit for 19 enemy planes (4th highest among navy fliers), including six on one mission, plus a ship sunk.

Alex Vraciu is alive and well, enjoying retirement in California. I'm posting a link to a site for a campaign to give Mr. Vraciu the Congressional Medal of Honor that he has deserved all along.