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          Paul W. Bucha

          Captain, U.S. Army Company D, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry, 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division

          A high school all-American swimmer in the early 1960s, Paul Bucha was offered athletic scholarships from schools such as Yale and Indiana University, but he chose West Point instead.

          After graduation, he got an MBA from Stanford University, then reported to Fort Campbell. In 1967, he arrived in Vietnam with the 187th Infantry as a captain in charge of an infantry company.

          On March 16, 1968, as part of the U.S.

          forces’ effort to push the enemy away from Saigon after the Tet Offensive, Bucha’s 89-man company was inserted by helicopter into a suspected North Vietnamese stronghold southwest of Phuoc Vinh.

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          5. For the next two days, the unit destroyed enemy fortifications and base camps and eliminated scattered resistance. Late in the afternoon of March 18, the lead element of the company, about 12 men, exchanged fire with enemy soldiers.

          Then suddenly the entire