Marine awarded Silver Star for heroics, ordering troops to fix bayonets, 51 years ago in Vietnam
By: Shawn Snow  
Retired Marine Maj. Edward F. Wright was awarded the Silver Star Friday at a ceremony in Portland, Oregon, for his battlefield heroics in Vietnam nearly 51 years ago.
Wright was a second lieutenant assigned to 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines on Aug. 21, 1967, when he led a platoon sized quick reaction force against an entrenched North Vietnamese Force that had just ambushed an Army convoy and pinned down a relief unit for his company commander.
According to his award citation, Wright organized his platoon and led them on a two-mile march toward the ambush point.
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